AMD joins MeeGo

Posted Nov 16, 2010 22:38 UTC (Tue) by man_ls (guest, #15091)
In reply to: AMD joins MeeGo by drag
Parent article: AMD joins MeeGo

They are losing time and time is the most precious resource they have. If they don't move their asses they are going to be dead on arrival.

And right when they should be doing releases and putting their OS on devices -- and those devices in the hands of people, they switch both packaging system (to RPM) and graphical toolkit (to Qt). Even if it somehow made sense (it doesn't), they should probably just have stuck to their previous choices and went ahead with that; afterwards they might have transitioned away to whatever weird choices if they really wanted to, but not before they had polished the user experience.

I am not implying that RPM and Qt are bad choices, just that APT and Gtk should be good enough. I have tried a Nokia N770 and a SmartQ5, and the problems with both were not the packaging system or the toolkit.

Right now I don't know if there is anyone left excited by what MeeGo may have to offer. The last ones were probably the guys who tried to create a derivative and were told to change the name.