On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Jeremiah Foster <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jul 8, 2010, at 17:46, David Greaves wrote: > >> On 07/07/10 00:32, Dirk Hohndel wrote: >>> Again, the default builds that we provide are optimized for Atom - I >>> don't think there's anything wrong with that. It's fairly straight >>> forward to build for other platforms if you need that, but I think it is >>> not a reasonable request that we shouldn't optimize for our platform. >> >> I think this is one area where people really need to think carefully about >> whether they have an Intel, Nokia or MeeGo hat on. The "we"s in that >> sentence are a tad ambiguous. >> >> Clearly when *Intel* ship MeeGo-on-atom it should be polished, focused and >> optimised. >> >> However, MeeGo makes many claims to be open and inclusive; shouldn't it seek >> to minimise barriers to entry? > > > Furthermore, when people make the claim that it is 'cross-platform' is that a > valid claim if MeeGo does not work identically well on ARM as it does on > Atom? If Nokia and Intel are not responsible for the effective working of > MeeGo on the ARM platform, then who is? >
I have never seen a cross-platform distro where things work identically on all platforms. There is always variance in what packages, which versions, how supported, how maintained each one is, based on community/developer/user interest. I think that what people are mixing up a bit in this discussion is whether for a distro to be open and cross platform implies financing a community too. And IMO this stems from the model that Red Hat and SuSE have ironed out for their distros (where there is the internal development and the commnunity development as separate entities). Before Fedora and openSuSE, Red Hat and SuSE had no community distro or community anything (that resembles the current setup), and no one ever thought of calling them closed. Open => you have the sources to do as you wish if the binaries aren't good enough for you. Cross platform => can build for and run on > 1 processor architecture. I think that Meego can claim those 2. If you think that your preferred platform/architecture is not getting proper attention, roll up your sleeves and start building some rpms for it ! Nowadays there are tons of places that will provide hosting for all sorts of open projects, so finding a home for it shouldn't be too hard either. Christian. _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
