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A few thoughts and questions...
Can Meego be classed as a distro in its own right, yet? Or, is it still a derivative of Maemo & Moblin? Apart from targetting small devices is it more similar to Fedora or Debian - might it make sense to partner/align/pool with the more more mature distro that it's most like?

To achieve mass-market penetration of any OS, it's probably necessary for that OS to be pre-loaded on devices. Teaming up with a h/w vendor to have a Meego device seems unlikely at the moment but it may happen. So, in the mean time Meego needs to be really adaptable so it can be used to replace Android/Windows/other and make use of as many h/w features as possible as well as being competitive on the s/w front (e.g. geo-location, OCR, speech recognition, office s/w, games, etc, etc). A lot to expect!

In terms of using the OS, for handsets, there is a real opportunity to offer a nearly full linux distro which, can work really well with a touch-friendly UI (e.g. Cordia) or, when required serve as a slimmed down desktop computer (e.g. EasyDebian); and, as technology advances, the desktop capabilites will be able to be expanded.
 

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