Rather typical ("believers" versus facts) message.
The key point was:
selection is best on available benchmarks (Acid3, SunSpider, etc).
And best (platform) == popular among developers/distros and reliable.
To get a feeling how GNU/Linux Debian is positioned among others
just open this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distrobutions
No need to code a program to count lines where distro is Debian based,
it is simply too obvious
(roughly 2,5 screens on my notebook versus 1 screen for rpm based).
But as you correctly mentioned some people are clearly
not interested in facts and statistics.
No need to reply, this was not meant to start process of "disagreeing".
It was an attempt at reasoning.
Br,
George
--- On Wed, 3/24/10, Andrew Flegg <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Andrew Flegg <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [MeeGo-dev] browser engine and other big architectural decisions
To: "George Matveev" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Clint Christopher Cañada" <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Date: Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 3:00 PM
2010/3/24 George Matveev <[email protected]>
>
[snip interesting insights]
>
> The end result - very poor browser performance on all Tablets
> (Loading objects, Loading objects, with complete freeze of UI),
> frustrated customers and ultimately the failure of the platform
> (since for most users browser is most popular application).
However, every review of the N900 says it has the best mobile browser
by *far* and that it's the one redeeming feature for all the other
shortcomings. Personally, I'm often frustrated by Maemo browsing but I
think this is for three reasons:
1) Small screen and websites not designed for it
2) Poor bandwidth performance due to device or available 3G network
3) Poor browser engine performance
#3 is apparently tackled somewhat in Maemo 5's PR 1.2 which includes
an update to the Gecko core and numerous performance improvements.
> To become a success a mobile stack needs to select best open source
> components and integrate them seamlessly and effectively on best
> platform (i.e. Debian) . LiMo is already doing this.
I think pointing to LiMo as an example of a successful, open, Linux
stack is somewhat ironic - if LiMo was so successful there'd've been
no need for Maemo, Moblin or even, now, MeeGo.
However, I don't think anyone would disagree with your assertion of
"select[ing the] best open source components and integrat[ing] them
seamlessly and effectively on best platform". It's the detail as to
what "best" is where people disagree (rpm/deb, yum/apt, Gecko/WebKit)
;-)
Cheers,
Andrew
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