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2011-02-17 , 19:26
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#1404
Originally Posted by redman View Post
Excuse me for dropping in like this, but since Nokia is cuddling with Microsoft, I wonder how support for the N900 will turn out in the long run.

Of course they will support the phone for the next 3 years, but how about the development of new or current applications? Will Maemo continue if Nokia would drop out? Just my 2 cents on the matter.

And I hope someone could tell if there is a way to mirror the current "N900" repo's (for example by using rsync on a RHEL/Fedora/CentOS based system) ??
What do you mean by "they will support the phone for the next 3 years" if you mean Nokia then you appear to have missed the fact that they are no longer supporting the N900 and so there will be no future firmware upgrades. However the Community have now taken over this aspect and so we should get upgrades as long as sufficent Developers/users are interested.

We may get a usable meego port this year but see my post a couple of posts further back on that subject.