Maemo + Moblin = MeeGo
 

http://flors.wordpress.com/2010/02/1...meego-join-us/

I will update this later. Let's start the discussion here.

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The phrase "Fully open source" spotted. That a fact?

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Yes: http://meego.com

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I know someone had to ask.

Will Meego be available for N900 as an upgrade OS?

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So a 2 month old N900 has a defunct OS already....

what are the chances of MeeGo on N900?

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The name must be a joke: "me" + "ego" = ?

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there goes maemo already, hopefully it can be run on the n900

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I'm a bit perplexed as to how this all fits together, though it does seem like a good idea.

Will Moblin and Maemo as seperate entities go away to be replaced by MeeGoo? If so, how does that affect maemo.org?

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first release already seconf quarter, they are moving fast with this

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...what does that mean? Maemo6 = MeeGo 1.0 ? Or will it be "only" compatible with Moblin apps? Will this page be the "talk.meego.org" at some stage?
I think this is huge to bring it together - and haveing QT in the middle of everthing will make thinks even easier to develop.

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"If you look at the next release of Maemo, it'll be fully compatible with MeeGo in terms of application development."

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Whaat? Moblin?

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according to announcment maemo.org will be replaced "merged" with meegoo

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Excellent! I actually hoped things like this would happen.

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From Engadget live feed:

Nokia's not decided whether Maemo 6 will be Maemo 6, MeeGo, or something else. "We haven't decided on the branding."

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i'd like to have one strong platform for mobile linux. so meego should be good news.

however, i'm afraid, this means:

1) nokia had again thrown out compatibility and continuity with previous linux devices

2) i hoped that maemo6 will be THE polished consumer product I was looking for. Unfortunately meego will again take time to merge maemo and moblin and prepare stable consumer product.
Even if the 1st device will be available this year, it will be temporary product with followup devices incampatible again (i'm sure).

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Have Nokia any clue whats going on?

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...and just another think jumping to my mind - does this mean that Intel will support a platform that runs on ARM?!? Well how strange this might be for the Intel x86 community?

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Jaaksi says maemo 6 is an instance of meego: http://jaaksi.blogspot.com/2010/02/meego-time.html

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Sorry but MeeGo is just a stupid name, why not Maemo or Moblin?

Cheers

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Wonderful news. Yet another win for Linux.
I hope both communities merge well and come out stronger.
Moblin is really nice on netbooks. And all of us here are Maemo fans anyway.
I think they would complement each other. :-)

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Yeah! This is what I had hoped for since July 2007. Moblin and Maemo had always been so close...

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Yes, they said that Meego will support multiple hardware platforms and that just simply has to include ARM considering that they basicly listed every possible kind of mobile device from phones to in vehicle devices.


EDIT:
From Ari Jaaksi's blog:


It’ll run on X86 and on Arm based hardware.

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This is really scary.

Will Maemo 5 receive any sort of updates now that Nokia has embraced (yet) another new project?

Are the next Maemo 6 powered devices moving to x86 platform?

If Meego is the next Maemo 6, will it run on N900? (considering Intel is an x86 provider I supose not).

Will Moblin lost all of it's Clutter based goodies to adopt Qt?

Will Meego run on any x86 based PC as any other Linux distro? Does it means that Maemo is not a Mobile Computer platform but a common Linux distro?

Sincerely I can't understand Nokia's strategy, while Apple's and Google's appear very clear to me.

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Right now, I'm loving this move.

"Netbook, Pocketables, In-Vehicle, Connected TV, Media phone" :)

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I hope this does not delay the next products.
Maemo 5 is very usable, and Moblin 2.1 is almost usable in my opinion (a little too much bugs in my opinion).

HopeMeeGo helps to promote linux

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great news for the community, not so great unless its worked back to all the punters that bought an N900 and are in 18 / 24 month contracts...


from twitter.....
@FoneArena

Just asked a question if nokia n900 will get meego .. got an answer that developers could make transition easily. .. dunno if consumers can

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Great news for me. Less Linux fragmentation, more shared resources to build future open source applications.

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i agree that the name is poor.

as for "why not use established name": have you read flor's blog? he is happy two big egos of intel and nokia are able to cooperate. it seems, however, that these two egos needed new name to go on with the "merger". :-)

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That sounds like a rather unfortunate turn. I'd hoped that Nokia had a stronger vision for the maemo platform! Now they're already cobbling it up again. How's that helping with building a strong community??

Also, what the heck is intel up to? their only asset is x86 technology! why are they investing in creating an open, portable platform that would be architecture-independent? as soon as people have the free choice of architecture for running their software, intel will be crunched by ARM.

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I don't understand how people can see this as such a negative thing. Nokia and Intel are both massive, and they are putting their united effort behind ONE open source platform!

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http://meego.com/about/overview/big-...steering-group
this video answers a bunch of questions people here have asked

http://meego.com

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heh, the thought that intel have trouble getting traction with moblin, and is piggybacking on maemo just hit me...

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Again reinventing the wheel...

I really don't understand this movement. Nokia has developed ARM based devices for years, what now?

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This plus the fact that you won't be limited to Nokia as only source for hardware anymore.

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It's negative for me because I've spent 600 euros in a mobile computer that hasn't received some of the features promised, that hasn't a properly working software store and that has an uncertain future.

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There are a lot of unanswered questions. It is a lot easier for 1 company to develop an OS, than to cooperate with a second one that is currently is a totally different market. SUre netbooks/smartphones/booklets/tablet are merging, but Nokia and Intel have totally different things that they want to gain from this.

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You are a glass half empty person I see. What I see is more resources being pumped into application development for our devices.

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That sounds to me like: "no".

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So with all of the potential uses of this platform we are discussing naming?! As if other industry names (Microsoft, Apple, Blackberry, Wii) are somehow better? please...

What is next? The color choice isnt good enough?