Thread: MeeGo's Community Woes
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2011-01-06 , 22:32
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Originally Posted by cfh11 View Post
Well of course it isn't built completely from scratch. IIRC it still uses a standard linux kernel and some common APIs.
I was still making reference to this operating system as an ARM Linux OS. It would seem terrible to write so much from scratch right away. Wasteful and dumb, really. Hopefully that's not the case--or if it is, it'll QUICKLY develop faster than Maemo did. God, it's been YEARS and Maemo STILL ended up feeling unfinished in its latest incarnation.
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