[fedora-arm] Maemo / Moblin / MeeGo

[Adam Miller]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6:20 AM, Jeff Moe <moe at blagblagblag.org> wrote:
> Nokia's N900[1] is a relatively open smartphone running the Maemo distro[2] which is roughly based on Debian Etch. Moblin[3] is a distro mostly by Intel which is/was primarily for Netbooks. If you haven't heard the news[4], Intel and Nokia have agreed to merge the Maemo and Moblin projects into a new project called MeeGo[5], hosted by the Linux Foundation.
>
> So what's so cool about this for the fans of this list? "We are using F12 ARM release to bootstrap MeeGo using the OBS build system[6] ARM architecture support."[7] Suddenly Fedora ARM has gone from relative obscurity to being the foundation for one of the most innovative hardware/software packages out there. Very cool. :)
>
> Have fun,
>
> -Jeff
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N900
> [2] http://www.maemo.org/
> [3] http://moblin.org/
> [4] http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/374612/bb8bf5cc77d85358/
> [5] http://www.meego.org/
> [6] http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service
> [7] http://wiki.meego.com/ARM_Support
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<repost ... silly "reply all" button got away from me/>

That's awesome!!! I do however think its a little funny that the
opensuse build service is being used to bootstrap Fedora, but more
power to open source collaboration :)

-AdamM

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