Wow! i fired this email off when i got home last night and it stirred quite an exchange.
however, a bit of background will show my reaction is not a knee-jerk on my part,
just the culmination of a path turning sour.
i used to work for danger before M$ bought it out. i enjoyed the mobile sidekick platform
we provided despite its targeted youth market. its use for google/email on the go was
Great!
this is what i must have in my truck.
when i later got laid off last spring, i decided to look for a way to use Linux in a
similar portable
form factor. after some looking about, the hot setup seemed to be a netbook and moblin.
i chose moblin as i reasoned that backed by Intel (motivated by atom sales) should be a
solid
platform/open src steward to begin on. i selected a product direction of OBD to USB
reasoning
there may be a few gearheads in the fedora crowd that should also enjoy a window to their
automotive computers.
the project kept me busy all summer while i looked for new work. however, i was less than
overwhelmed by the moblin desktop.
in a landscape precious screen, they dedicate 1/3 to twitter/social networking(waste),
1/3 to the last jpg's i've looked at (yawn), and a paltry 1/3 for my desktop with
icons & calendar space. 1/3 is not enough.
i really just want a mobile fedora; i have it at home & work, i use it, i like it.
as for meetoo, err, meego, its just another social centric os trying to compete with M$
products yet to be released. i hate a deployment that hides all the behind the scenes
stuff i
want to know about.
moblin died for me because it failed to live up to my needs.
my next posts will focus on adapting fc11 to a small form factor.
thx again to all that reported using fc on the eeepc.
as for meego, you and the kids have fun, i got work to do.
On 02/16/2010 12:12 AM, birger wrote:
On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 18:39 -0800, jack craig wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I regret to report that Moblin, my hope for a mobile linux, is dead.
As someone alse already pointed out, Moblin is not dead.
What is happening is that Moblin (intel-based) and Maemo (Arm-based) are
merging to create MeeGo.
MeeGo is supposed to have common lower layers, and alternative UX (User
eXperience) layers. There will be UX layers for cell phones, tablets,
netbooks, stationary media phones, and whatnot.
MeeGo will use rpm as packaging mechanism. It will run X, have gtk
support, but main GUI SDK will be QT.
Given that it should support intel and arm and be based on rpm, is there
some way fedora and MeeGo could interact? Could a platform with Intel
and Nokia as sponsors cooperate with the huge Fedora community with
RedHat as sponsor? Could Fedora become a development platform for both?
It would certainly help defragment linux a bit.
MeeGo is set to become the biggest linux on mobile devices if Nokia mean
what they say: According to Ari Jaaksi, VP Nokia “We will put all our
force behind making MeeGo THE operating system” and “Nokia will ship
tons of MeeGo devices, Intel, too. And others will use MeeGo in their
devices. It is open, free, powerful and compatible.”
That said, I prefer running Fedora on my netbooks. I actually think
there is no problem at all running a full gnome on a netbook. I usually
remove the panels and install cairo-dock. I also make a few gui tweaks
that I am used to doing on older hardware (getting rid of gradients in
window borders and so on). Seriously, a netbook is more powerful than
what I used to run linux on just 1-2 years ago.
birger
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