Merging Familiar Linux, OpenZaurus and OpenSimpad

Greetings,

big things are going on in the OpenEmbedded world.

After the move to the new linux-eabi OpenZaurus, OpenSimpad and Familiar 
will be binary compatible with each other and debian-arm. All 3 distros 
are already being built from the same source, namely OpenEmbedded.

The release managers of those projects would like the three projects to
merge and create a small, fast, stable and professional Linux distribution
for all kinds of devices (handhelds, webpads, settop-boxes, POS systems).

Back in the days when we unified as part of the OpenEmbedded team, we
found it
would be better to keep the known "brand names" for while we are in the
transition
from the non-OE releases to the OE-based releases. After a couple
of successful OE-based releases, we now think it's the time to do the
next step and complete the merger.

What are your opinions on this subject?
-- 
Regards,

Mickey.
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Dipl.-Inf. Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <[email protected]>
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