2011/10/5 Jeremiah Foster <[email protected]>: >> Distrowatch are server and dektop disties. The special thing in MeeGo was >> that >> the focus was on emerging devices. > > And how exactly did it do that? By using Connman? By using an "embedded" > Linux kernel? Btrfs? By being "small"? What exactly makes MeeGo different > from other "desktop" distros? Or was it just a little bit of marketing?
I agree with Jeremiah here. MeeGo really was a lot more pain to get slimmed down with its actually desktop distro legacy and for example package dependencies than with Debian. Maemo was the actual embedded OS, but MeeGo never got to reach it. That said, I do believe there is a lot of room and need for Mer, and potentially Tizen (hopefully fully usable by Mer and others) when it actually materializes, simply because it tries to continue MeeGo as is but fixing the problems mostly everyone agrees with - MeeGo was not lean core at any point, and the community, decision and communication aspects sucked in many ways. Doing so gets the existing MeeGo community people to continue, while any other one choice like Debian (advertised by me among else), openSUSE (advertised by Jon among else), Yocto or other would not get all the same people on-board. With individuals it can be about simple things like familiriaty with tools, and OBS does rock. The important thing is to do something that matters (to you), and if possible do it in a way that everyone can benefit. The lesson with MeeGo here should be not to put all eggs into one basket. I'm a multi-distro person myself, and see strong value in distro-previously-called-MeeGo, Ubuntu, Yocto etc. in addition to Debian which I think rules the most broadly in its operation and scope. -Timo _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev http://wiki.meego.com/Mailing_list_guidelines
