Thread: Meego - Where's Maemo multitasking?
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wmarone is offline wmarone
2010-07-10 , 16:21
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Originally Posted by mrebanza View Post
off topic a bit but . . . even tho Meego is open source . . . almost ANY DEVICE running it will have closed drives and apps running on it . . . just like the nvidia drivers in ubuntu linux . . . they are closed . . . you can use them so long as you use them with a nvidia grafics chip but you can't edit / improve them and you can't try to use them on a non nvidia chipset . . .
Which is irrelevant except with respect to specific hardware. Until companies like Nvidia or Imagination decide to go open, we can only push closed bits to the periphery.

Same BS with Android . . . the base OS is open but hardware manufacturs still have to make the drivers for the **** to work and the phones ship with a bunch of apps that are closed AKA Gmail Youtube Google Maps . . . ect
Which is unavoidable. And if you don't like the closed apps you can always remove them.

Mer doesn't even have a basic phone dialing app . . . it is just the OS, the App Manager and a terminal. No phone No Music Player No Web Browser nada.
If you hadn't noticed, Stskeeps has retired Mer and moved to working on MeeGo.

for a company to pick up Mer and start building they would need to develop thier own phone app, drivers for the gsm and sim antenna, wifi functions ect.
Or they will grab MeeGo and make it compatible with their hardware. Their closed bits will be kept outside of the core distro, hopefully in such a place that end-users can grab them and build their own images, similar to how things seem to be lining up for the N900.

Also, I'm not quite sure what people's problem with the multitasking is. Unless I missed something, it is functionally identical to Maemo's, only with a different task switcher. If people are mistaking the task switcher for how multitasking behaves then I can only presume they have no knowledge of what they are talking about.
Last edited by wmarone; 2010-07-12 at 15:44. Reason: No replies before 10 AM!
 

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