The recent announcement about Nokia and Intel planning on merging Maemo and Moblin into MeeGo has generated a lot of interesting discussions online. What does this mean for the future of the N900? What does this mean for developers wishing to write for Maemo or Moblin? Perhaps the biggest discussion has been about the packaging system. On the MeeGo FAQ page, they say “MeeGo will use the .rpm format”.

Now if you think the wars between Mac and PC users can get a bit over the top, you should see the discussions that go on between developers concerning one packaging system or another. I jumped into the fray and asked if anyone had run RPM on the N900. Other than a few replies suggesting I wait until Meego is available or asking why anyone would want to do that, I’ve gotten little for responses.