I have an ASUS 1.8ghz Sempron laptop with 1gb of memory and ATI R300 card. It runs Ubuntu 9.04 perfectly well with open source 3d drivers and graphic performance provides nice eye-candy.
The Sempron chip does not support SSSE3 instructions so basically my hardware is excluded from running MeeGo? My option is to compile MeeGo without SSSE3 support (I'm prepared to do that). However, third-party apps will be available for the platform and I imagine in some instances will be binary only. If I want to run these apps on my SSSE3-disabled system then basically I'm royally screwed. (I know the above paragraph is hyperthetical but if I invest my time in MeeGo I want to be sure it will be well spent). I just think that using SSSE3 on all x86 packages is potentially limiting for the platform. What I like about MeeGo is that it does things differently from other Linux distros (which by far is a very good thing). MeeGo has enormous potential and limiting the platform requirements via SSSE3 seems a bit unnecessary. Considering all the hardwork evryone has put into MeeGo I think it would be better to "relax" the SSSE3 requirement and reach a much wider audience.
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