Chrome, Moblin, the Intel-Nokia Collaboration - I Don't Get It
 

Warning! May contain traces of speculation and conspiracy theories!

Remember the Intel/Nokia press release from June this year?
Now Google makes progress on ChromeOS, and reveals that it's largely based on work done for Moblin and Ubuntu. GTK, Clutter, the usual suspects.

So the picture as I see it is that there's a ecosystem of several OS's for mobile internet devices forming around the Gnome universe, with Moblin being something like the one thing in the center of it that maybe shares most with all the others.

Maemo was (and still is) an active part of all this, up to and including Maemo 5.

Which is good. It helps moving code from one OS to the other. (ChromeOS being an exception, of course, but still...)

Now we know that Maemo will be slowly drifting away because of the Qt-decision. I don't know if other components will be changed, too, but the GTK-Qt-move is enough to make Maemo a distant cousin rather than a brother.

At least that's how it seems to me.

But: What was this Intel/Nokia agreement in June all about? Have we seen any outcome of this? I don't think we have. Thinking of Intel as "the Moblin world" and of Nokia as "the Maemo world", wouldn't it be reasonable to expect Maemo and Moblin moving closer together at least at some level? There's been no mention of it since June.

What does all this mean? Do you think the people behind Chrome OS, Ubuntu, Moblin and Maemo coordinate their efforts, even though they're working in completely different markets?
Or is all of this just happening more or less randomly, no plan, no common development?

And again: How does the press release from June fit in? What would we expect from a cooperation between Intel and Nokia? They state it's not only about hardware... Yet, we haven't seen anything software-wise. Is there something cooking behind the scenes?

Re: Chrome, Moblin, the Intel-Nokia Collaboration - I Don't Get It
 

Where did you hear that Chrome OS uses technologies such as GTK and clutter? I was under the impression that it uses a new windowing system, which is not even X11 based, so it won't be possible to run existing X11 applications. From what I know, Chrome OS, although partly open source (with a license that has yet to be specified) is a "proprietary" OS which is runs on a Linux kernel but uses very little of the Linux user space technologies (just like Android).

Re: Chrome, Moblin, the Intel-Nokia Collaboration - I Don't Get It
 

It's in a German language article
http://derstandard.at/1256745255762/...u-Moblin-GNOME

They claim they got the info from looking at the source code.

Re: Chrome, Moblin, the Intel-Nokia Collaboration - I Don't Get It
 

I think the thing with intel and nokia is more about hardware than software. Intel probably wants to be able to put 3g or 4g radio processing stuff on chip and nokia has IP for that and who knows what nokia gets in return, maybe dibs on first run of these new processors.

Intel is getting it handed to them with all of the chips used in iphone,droid,n900 etc. they want to get into that market bad and the atom ain't going to get them there yet, so they are probably re-engineering something.

I would bet sometime next year Nokia will debut a phone(regardless of OS) with an intel chip in it.

Re: Chrome, Moblin, the Intel-Nokia Collaboration - I Don't Get It
 

I also got the impression that it was more about hardware than software. I think that the OS references are likely about stuff like Intel's and Nokia's oFono project for GSM telephony in Linux.

Re: Chrome, Moblin, the Intel-Nokia Collaboration - I Don't Get It
 

First, remember that Nokia has already produced a tablet with Intel inside. That said, I would love to see an x86 compatible Intel chip in a Nokia smartphone.

Re: Chrome, Moblin, the Intel-Nokia Collaboration - I Don't Get It
 

There's more than ofono in the original press release: