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mishmich is offline mishmich
2011-02-21 , 20:02
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#1635
Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
And so you are deliberately ignoring everything coming out of the project. Congratulations. April for 1.2 and usability (but not end-user quality) has been stated since roughly September/October, and known earlier due to the 6 month release cycle.


As I said, blame the hardware vendors for using hardware that has no open source drivers, or drivers that are not in the kernel. You seem to like pointing the finger at Linux/MeeGo, but they have established policies and can only work with hardware for which someone with knowledge about has stood up to support.


Normally you wouldn't, unless you're a developer. Yet you insist on attacking it for not being something it was never promised to be.
So, what is the point of discussing this here? MeeGo is of no interest to people with an n900 and Maemo. This forum is for Maemo and devices which include the n900. You have stated that MeeGo is not relevant to this. Why are you not discussing this on the MeeGo forum? I am not discussing this on the MeeGo forum because MeeGo has nothing to offer me. Maemo, in potential community releases (or in any future Nokia release) may well have something to offer me.

Interesting reply - how is it that under Ubuntu I can use the WiFi on my netbook - but not under MeeGo? On my Compaq laptop, I had to use an NDIS wrapper to use the broadcom device - but with the netbook it just worked. There are ways round these issues - but now that broadcom have released their drivers so that linux developers can use them, hopefully they will eventually appear in MeeGo. I'm still not holding my breath though, because from what you are saying MeeGo is not really a linux-type system (where I can load it onto an existing computer) - it is intended to sell new computers, so will be limited to a narrow range of devices.

So, there is no point continuing this discussion - I am interested in having the choice to buy what hardware I choose, and installing the OS of my choice - MeeGo does not feature there, it is to be like Windows and Apple, built on the back of linux, running on specific hardware, and locking users in. We have those already. But at least you have enlightened me as to why there is no point my wasting more time with MeeGo - because I would be unlikely to buy a device like that (although I would like a tablet). Thanks.