On 4/2/2010 13:35, Jean-Christian de Rivaz wrote:
Arjan van de Ven a écrit :
Who build the package is not important, what's in the package and the
quality is more important.
what I want to express is if the packages without meego's special
patches, meego should just use/rebuild it from fedora, it reduce the
cost of the project.
that sounds nice in theory, but does not work in practice. MeeGo and
Fedora
have very different objectives and that makes what you describe not a
good option,
and not current practice.
This make me even more less optimist about the future of Meego. The
interesting concept of Maemo was to lower the difference between a PC
and a mobile computer. There is already a lot of mobile products that do
a lot of fun stuff in a very different way as in a PC. And in this area,
Meego is so late and immature that is have no chance at all.
MeeGo is by no means restricted to mobile, but it does have a very strong focus on
"client device"
and does not want to compromise the client experience for server kind of things.
lets face reality, if I compare MeeGo on a netbook to, say, Fedora (but the same comparison holds pretty much wrt suse or debian or ubuntu,
although there a few things on the list will be in common)
MeeGo has a different
* buildsystem (OBS)
* bootloader (syslinux)
* kernel
* way of booting the OS (fastinit)
* filesystem (btrfs)
* network configuration and start (connman)
* way of starting the user session (uxlaunch)
* X packaging/versions/stack/etc including non-root-X
* desktop environments (continuation of the Moblin netbook UI for netbooks,
others for different device types)
* preferred application UI toolkit (Qt)
* package updater (zypper)
* ...
* ...
eg a long list of differences (and it's longer than this).
each of these differences, we think, contribute to what we think is a better
client experience either for the 1.0 release or for a next version.
It's not that I WANT to be different no matter what, but at the same time I
don't accept an inferior experience
for the sake of sharing some technology that does not really fit. If things can
be shared, great! If not, so be it.
Is it still a "PC linux like OS" ? Absolutely. Just because it has a somewhat different architecture in how things are put together, for the
user and applications it's still very much intended to be a quite complete *client* PC linux.
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