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Posted Mar 30, 2011 11:22 UTC (Wed) by debacle (subscriber, #7114)
In reply to: Somebody needs to open Android back up by xxiao
Parent article: How Amazon could loosen Google's iron grip on Android (ars technica)

Before Meego there was something much better, called Maemo. The code for Hildon etc. still exists and could be developed further.


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Posted Mar 30, 2011 12:49 UTC (Wed) by Felix.Braun (subscriber, #3032) [Link]

What advantages do you see in Maemo over Meego? To me the two seem essentially equivalent only one is GTK+/deb based the other Qt/RPM-based.

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Posted Mar 30, 2011 13:47 UTC (Wed) by ufa (subscriber, #56005) [Link]

"What advantages do you see in Maemo over Meego? To me the two seem essentially equivalent only one is GTK+/deb based the other Qt/RPM-based."

The difference is basically that Maemo was done, and Meego is not

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Posted Mar 30, 2011 14:27 UTC (Wed) by debacle (subscriber, #7114) [Link]

GTK+/deb is — yes, it's a matter of taste — already an advantage over Qt/RPM :~)

Furthermore, I used Maemo/Hildon since its infancy, being one of the first N770 users, now N800 user. I really like it! I just don't see any reason to drop this wunderbar system for anything else.

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