Hi, On 02/16/2010 02:58 PM, Alan Cox wrote: >> (1) Curious about why you say Moblin is dead? I missed the announcement! >> >> (2) I'm writing this on a EeePC 1000HA (1GB, 160GB - but I'm using less >> than 20G) running F12 very nicely. > > Moblin and Maemo are merging to produce one project using the best bits > of each to produce a single distro > > www.meego.com > Sorry for hijacking the thread but I wanted to point something out to the fedora folk out here who have not yet heard this -- MeeGo intends to use rpm instead of deb for package management (yay !). However, there's been a considerable amount of community bashing taking place out on the MeeGo mailing list by current Maemo community members who are partial to dpkg. A lot of the reasoning goes like this .... ...rpm has dependency issues ... ...rpm is slower than dpkg ... ...dpkg is more capable/stable/flexible than rpm ... Now, the reason I bring this up here is, I assume most people here have come to rely on and love yum (which is more like the front-end to something that, IMHO, most users don't use these days -- rpm). As a package management system, I think rpm is just as capable (if not more) than dpkg. However, the discussion on MeeGo is turning out to be very biased, with even an active dpkg maintainer chiming in with an offer to help (professionally too !) work out any possible issues related to adopting dpkg[1]. As someone who would love to work on MeeGo without having to try various hacks[2] to get a dev setup on a Fedora box, and also someone who would like to simply bring some balance in the conversation I mentioned, I request people with more rpm knowledge than mine to join the MeeGo list and participate in the thread. cheers, - steve [1] http://lists.meego.com/pipermail/meego-dev/2010-February/000085.html [2] http://blog.gbraad.nl/2009/11/maemo-5-sdk-on-fedora-12.html Although it might have worked when that ^^^^ post was written, the present installer script of the maemo sdk is broken on fedora because it first checks for apt, and if that fails, just works with .tgz archives but still makes a lot of assumptions about the install environment: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=34924&page=2 -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/ -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
