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wmarone is offline wmarone
2011-02-21 , 20:22
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Originally Posted by mishmich View Post
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?
Yay, misconstruing things more!

MeeGo is not of interest to the people who want to just use a device. This forum includes people who DO like to tinker and hack their device, as well as people who are interested in MeeGo.

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.
Who knows, I'd have to sit down and look.

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.
Yes, that is the goal of staying in sync with the mainline as possible.

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.
It is intended to be a standard Linux type system. It does not, however, intend to be and end-user end-product. On the other hand, someone could branch from MeeGo, make no changes at all to the underlying OS and apply Smoku's Cordia packages to create something compatible with MeeGo but with a far better user interface than the reference designs. That's what is really intended.

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.
Indeed, there is no point in having a discussion with someone who insists on ignorantly attacking and pointing the finger at something they wholly fail to understand.
 

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