misleading title

Posted Mar 31, 2010 23:48 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: misleading title by arjan
Parent article: The first MeeGo release

The word "final" appears ... where ...?

It's a code release, even if it's not a packaged release. Apologies if any confusion was created.

misleading title

Posted Apr 1, 2010 10:53 UTC (Thu) by cowsandmilk (guest, #55475) [Link] (1 responses)

I'm always amazed that in a community with the "release early and often matra", a lot of open source people seem to get upset when you call something a release and it doesn't cover everything they want. That said, the mailing list post does say (in what may be considered contradiction to the article title):

in the next few days, we will post the next steps leading to the first release of MeeGo in May.

misleading title

Posted Apr 1, 2010 16:39 UTC (Thu) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link]

The only thing that irritates me in this specific case is that they are farting around with building their own OS in the first place. The only thing people care about with Meego is the user interface and development tools. That is the stuff they need to be concentrating on if they want to have any impact at all.

Until Meego releases a set of API standards (aka dependency requirements) + Development tools + Inititial GUI environments + Good packages for usable Linux systems like Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora then nobody has any reason to give a crap about anything they are doing.

In other words:

If their goal is to make Linux more attractive in the embedded devices-with-advanced-GUI area they should be targetting what people are actually going to use in small Linux systems.

However, if their goal is to make a new Linux OS that they can hang their hat on and say it is their's well the rest of the world ignores them completely then they are going down the right path.