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[Posted June 22, 2011 by ris]

I would like to thank the people at SouthEast LinuxFest for allowing me to speak about "How to Train Your Users". It was a last minute addition to replace my talk on "How to Fork Fedora for Fun and Profit" since I ran out of Fun and Profit in getting that ready. I would also like to thank the people who sat through my presentation. It was the first one I have given in years and really need to work on it. I do apologize for not bringing a true User Attention Reset Tool, but after being told by several people that many staff were packing ... bringing a knife to a gun fight was ill-advised :).

-- Stephen Smoogen

So with my work done with the Fedora Board, I have decided to spend more time on things I can fix (technical things) versus those I can not (human interactions). One of those things, was to use more of the Rawhide release because if I can earn LWN.net weekly quotes of the week, I should endure the pain that Jonathan Corbet goes through every day. Hopefully it will also get F16 to be better.

-- Stephen Smoogen

Go for a walk, come back and reboot the system the old fashioned way. System reboots into plymouth and stops halfway through the building the icon. Oook gets out hammer.. and boots system into rescue mode again.

-- Stephen Smoogen (still trying to get rawhide running)

So there you have it, if there's a reason for ditching MeeGo, it's certainly not a technical one, and most likely not a good one either. I hope the people out there like what we did with the Nokia N9 and ask the though question "Why exactly did you leave MeeGo, again?", specially when there are no signs of any Windows Phone device.

-- Felipe Contreras

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Posted Jun 23, 2011 9:16 UTC (Thu) by Comet (subscriber, #11646) [Link] (2 responses)

The grumpy editor appears to be ungrumpily happy that one of the Fedora devs is as masochistic as he is?

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Posted Jun 23, 2011 16:24 UTC (Thu) by ris (subscriber, #5) [Link] (1 responses)

> The grumpy editor appears to be ungrumpily happy that one of the Fedora
> devs is as masochistic as he is?

That grumpy guy doesn't pick all the quotes. And not all of us are masochistic enough to run rawhide on a production system.

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Posted Jun 23, 2011 19:51 UTC (Thu) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link]

I am happy that I got quoted (again). Working with rawhide is a fun (like eating hot chili with extra hot sauce) experience and I will be regularly blogging it from a sysadmin's versus developers viewpoint.

N9: Meego -> WP7

Posted Jun 23, 2011 16:57 UTC (Thu) by rvfh (guest, #31018) [Link] (1 responses)

Yesterday on French news channel BFMTV they were showing the N9 and explaining that "the OS is not very good but will be updated to Windows Phone 7 at the end of the year which will make the phone much better."

I wanted to shout at him to have some more details about his statement, as he probably had the phone like in the morning for the evening program.
Never mind... :-(

N9: Meego -> WP7

Posted Jul 13, 2011 19:34 UTC (Wed) by oak (guest, #2786) [Link]

What exactly was not very good with it? E.g. Engadget seemed to think it quite OK.

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Posted Jun 23, 2011 18:14 UTC (Thu) by linuxjacques (subscriber, #45768) [Link]

"Why exactly did you leave MeeGo, again?"

"Because MS gave us more $$$"

Same as always.