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By FAQ on Oct. 21, 2008

Initial prototyping was actually based on Fedora* RPMs, using yum to auto-resolve dependencies in the same way we use apt today. From day one, yum has proven itself to be less than ideal for the way we wanted to use it, while at the same time, the number of base Fedora packages that we needed to touch were quickly taking us to the point of maintaining a full distribution.

By moving Moblin Image Creator to a debian package/apt-based implementation and joining the Ubuntu-Mobile team, we benefited from the richer set of debian technologies, while, at the same time, pushing all of our distribution requirements into the upcoming Ubuntu Gutsy repository.