On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Robin Burchell <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > LiFo owns "MeeGo" and won't let us the name, to be sure, > > I'm not so sure about that, and nothing stops us from asking. The > worst that can happen is that we're told "no", and have to come up > with a new name. > Why would you want it? It is a name synonymous with failure now. > > > But seriously, if the worst case occurs and Tizen bears nearly no > > resemblance to MeeGo, why shouldn't we consider working on Qt > > development with Ubuntu Core, which is focused on ARM? > Different silicon for different situations. > From previous experiments that I've seen with Ubuntu, > performance-wise, I don't think this would be an option. Okay, now you're starting to wander off into the woods here. You're going to have to be very specific with what you claim are performance problems, don't just throw out unsupported claims because you've got some random anecdotal evidence. Linaro has made Android run 11% faster and I'm certain other Linux optimizations have come along with that as well that affect the GNU userland. If anything, deb based systems running Linaro perform much better than rpm systems which traditionally are not multi-platform and are aimed at the server. > MeeGo Core is > deliciously bare, which is one of the reasons it is a good choice for > mobile (and also one of the reasons that makes me think we'll see > parts of it live on in Tizen). Abandoning that legacy and jumping on > board another distro is certainly an option, but not, I believe, the > best available. > Linaro has done huge amounts of work on the Linux kernel on ARM silicon. ARM chips have extraordinary price to performance ratio and can scale down as well as up to multicore. If you're serious about Mobile Computing, you have to look seriously at the ARM processor. Debian and Ubuntu are the two distributions that have; - Commercial support - A decade long history of supporting ARM (and other platforms) - A large highly-competent ecosystem It makes a great deal of sense to just port some of the MeeGo stuff over to deb-based systems, at least some of it, other parts of it already exist. > > [ of course, you're free to make your own decision ] > > > Intel's possible complete departure, MeeGo development on Atom may > > completely stop, while Ubuntu Core is completely focused on ARM. > Wrong. Ubuntu works very hard to stress that they are not just an ARM distro - they have a great x86 distro too. > And that complete focus is a bad thing, Again, wrong. Your making assumptions. > it just minimalises your > portability, Now you just don't know what you're talking about. Debian is much, much more portable than MeeGo is or Tizen will ever be. Regards, Jeremiah
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