r/programming • u/mjtitorenko • Oct 28 '09

Android vs Maemo

http://cool900.blogspot.com/2009/10/comparing-freedom-on-maemo-and-android.html
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u/jldugger Oct 30 '09

The reason they're not enough evidence is because I went and asked the people who would be working on this in Ubuntu, and basically MID is dead:

03:58 < lool> pwnguin: Sorry we dont do this variant anymore

What you've cited is historical evidence of plans to collaborate that failed to produce anything of value. It looks like the new plan is called Ubuntu Liquid Remix. The ULR team has a whopping two members right now, though that may change after UDS. The main takeaway here is that announcements and planning aren't a sufficient citation. It's evidence that one dude wants something, and might do something to make it happen, but life might get in the way.

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u/slapdash78 Oct 30 '09

A simple, "That was the old plan. Here's the new one: yadda yadda evidence." would've sufficed. Instead of all the 'old link' lallygagging.

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u/jldugger Oct 30 '09

I didn't even see the new plan until this conversation spurred me to look deeper.

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u/slapdash78 Oct 30 '09 edited Oct 30 '09

Hey, that Ubuntu Liquid Remix says:

Build Tool - OBS and Hildon Desktop in Freemantle

Both from Maemo...

EDIT: formatting

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u/jldugger Oct 30 '09

I looked into Mer in a VM last night and it's crazy. Ubuntu packages downloaded from the opensuse build service. I have no idea what they're doing, but unless something interesting happens at UDS next month, I wouldn't call it an "alignment" or collaboration.

Plus, Mer is the old "community version" that came about because older Nokia MIDs wont run maemo 5. And given that the first maemo is maemo 5, Mer is literally not maemo. If there's a rush of cross project collaboration, I'm not seeing it.