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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. Sr13 03:18, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Jlime[edit]

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Notability to come. Chealer 18:40, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted in hopes of clearer consensus. DES (talk) 15:17, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete - One source does not make notability. -- Kesh 01:30, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep It was inside LinuxFormat 94 and a simple googling shows its notability. 80.251.192.2, 19:23, 17 June 2007
  • Keep Cites the founders website, has a third party review and has been in a Linux magazine. (I also just added a source for the ipkg section). Seems notable enough. 21:12, 17 June 2007 (BST)
  • Keep This is the best embedded Linux distribution and the ONLY one for HP Jornada's and I heard they were going

to add mobilepro to the supported list. Its very notable in Linux world. --217.208.148.126 21:23, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep Seems like a bad idea to delete such a notable Linux Distro,it was even in Linux Format this month Page 17 issue 94 A google of Jornada Linux will site the Distro at No 1 http://www.google.co.uk/ search Jornada+Linux and see for yourself ;) This is in no way a dead distro but is constantly being updated by a notable Linux Kernel Developer see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristoffer_Ericson that in itself should be Notable enough and also a review was on HPCFactor on Jan 22nd 2007 http://www.hpcfactor.com/reviews/software/jlime/donkey-1-0-2/ Hagisbasheruk 21:19, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep It also is the only existing project for Linux under the Jornada, and efforts are being made to bring it to other HPCs (turning it into an "umbrella project" of a sorts for Linux under HPCs, the only existing one). Plus, all the arguments above. B Lizzard 21:27, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Everything above pretty much states it. Mr.KlicK 22:08, 17 June 2007 (UTC)Mr.KlicK[reply]
  • keep handhelds.org also mentiones it. Lack of notability is out of question IMO.
    • The above arguments boil down to WP:ILIKEIT and WP:USEFUL. Neither of which are convincing in an AfD. -- Kesh 01:01, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment This nomination came out of a broad survey of linux distributions by Chealer as an attempt to reduce the number of non-notable articles on linux distributions. A noble, difficult, worthwhile task to be sure. However, most of these articles are unsourced, and Chealer exercised his best judgement/opinion as to which of the articles to nominate for deletion or not. Once nominated, articles such as these are placed in the difficult position of having to adhere to the strict guidelines concerning notability. The nomination process here has been subjective, and in my opinion linux distributions, being informal and opensource rather than commercial, tend not to receive the sort of press attention that commercial endeavors do. This is not to suggest that all articles on linux distributions should be kept, but rather there is a gray area here. I understand the need for sourcing material, but there are many, many articles in Wikipedia that are unsourced, won't ever be, yet are encyclopedic and worthwhile (c.f. flukeman - having recently watched the X-files episode, I was thrilled to find a Wikipedia article on it.). The nomination process for articles such as this has been rather arbitrary, and IMHO something is not quite kosher with this process.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Bdushaw (talk • contribs) 09:36, June 18, 2007
  • Comment I agree with Bdushaw, even though this distribution hasn't received much publicity it seems quite well known in the linux world and therefore notable on its own. --217.208.148.126 18:18, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment By the same standards cited by the deleters above (and indeed wikipedia policy) the following articles would also be deleted: GPE Palmtop Environment, Familiar Linux, OpenZaurus, OPIE user interface, Maemo, Qtopia, ELKS, Openembedded (and OpenPsion which is also up for deletion at the moment and how I got involved here). I am well aware of the policy that pointing out other faulty articles is no argument; however, all these articles fall into a very similar category. I am in the curious position of agreeing with sources, references, notability, etc. ... up until the conclusion in this case. There has to be a way for opensource development of linux on PDAs can have a good representation on Wikipedia. Bdushaw 06:41, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep I think it got enough notability --80.251.192.1 11:06, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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