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Originally Posted by mrojas View Post
Would you mind to expand? I am not doubting you, just want to learn more.
Maemo based itself on Debian from the beginning. Unfortunately, over time Nokia has introduced a lot of hackish modifications into the platform that have slowly caused divergence away from upstream (Debian) and failed to keep packages up to date (we're still on debhelper 5, upstream is at 7).

Basically, Maemo has become something that's only vaguely related to Debian and it affects people's ability to work with and on the platform.

Moblin, on the other hand, has a platform that uses up-to-date tools and doesn't have a tendency to compromise sanity to get a working product out the door.

Intel's bringing a strong platform expertise and Nokia's bringing the user experience.
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