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Moblin opening up

Re: Moblin opening up

I still say they end up abandoning most of what they've done so far and switching to a Mer base.

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"Opening up" is the wrong term. "Being adandoned" is what you're looking for. Don't expect anymore Moblin development.

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Originally Posted by qole (Post 277259)

I still say they end up abandoning most of what they've done so far and switching to a Mer base.

"a Mer base" makes no sense. What you likely mean is "back to Ubuntu", but that really doesn't make much mor sense since Moblin isn't bringing much of interest to the table at this point.

Re: Moblin opening up

Why should they abandon it? Moblin 2 is progressing quite nicely according to reports:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...blin_2a2&num=1

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Originally Posted by Bundyo (Post 277377)

Why should they abandon it? Moblin 2 is progressing quite nicely according to reports:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...blin_2a2&num=1

Uhm, yeah, a XFCE desktop. That's .. innovative.

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Originally Posted by Bundyo (Post 277377)

Why should they abandon it? Moblin 2 is progressing quite nicely according to reports:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...blin_2a2&num=1

I don't know why Moblin switched from Ubuntu to Fedora. While present in Moblin, its aspects like optimized quick booting and UXA for Intel graphics cards which are more interesting than Moblin itself. Or drivers for their sound cards, wireless cards (WWAN, WLAN).

All this is traditionally not directly interesting for Nokia or Maemo community so there is not much enthusiasm here. Well, unless Mer gets ported to Atom blahtops.

Meanwhile, WiMAX support arrived in Linux 2.6.29 and a while ago, the Intel graphics cards and wireless cards were interesting because there were open source drivers available but Atheros and AMD had the brilliant idea to join the bandwagon... :) other interesting projects from Intel are LessWatts.org and PowerTOP/LatencyTOP. But they're more necessary for laptops (and desktops/servers) than embedded stuff e.g. Nokia products.

Re: Moblin opening up

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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles (Post 277375)

"Opening up" is the wrong term. "Being adandoned" is what you're looking for. Don't expect anymore Moblin development.

Actually, "opening up" is correct and objective, "abandoned" is your subjective opinion.

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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles (Post 277375)

"Opening up" is the wrong term. "Being adandoned" is what you're looking for. Don't expect anymore Moblin development.

You think that's why Intel bought OpenedHand and poached Alan Cox from RedHat?

Moving moblin to LF seems to me similar to Nokia making Hildon a GNOME project, not an indication of abandonment at all.

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Originally Posted by lma (Post 277697)

Moving moblin to LF seems to me similar to Nokia making Hildon a GNOME project, not an indication of abandonment at all.

Or perhaps Maemo being a project sponsored by Nokia instead of a Nokia project.

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