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#94
Originally Posted by Viqsi View Post
I'm not a developer or major community wrangler or anything, but the way the various projects look to me...
  • "Maemo" is/was Nokia's Internet Tablets OS based on Debian, using the GTK Hildon framework plus ever-increasing amounts of Qt.
  • "Moblin" is/was Intel and the Linux Foundation's OS based more or less on Mandriva, using a GTK framework of some kind.
  • "MeeGo" is a failed merger attempt between Maemo and Moblin - Mandriva base plus Qt framework. It has also been used as the name of Maemo version 6, which wholeheartedly embraced Qt.
  • "Tizen" is essentially Intel/LF's successor to Moblin, with a few Maemo folks involved, using HTML5 As A Software Framework and EFL. (Incidentally, that last leaves me screaming in horror.)
  • "Mer" WAS originally a community update project (Hildon-based) that was to be a successor to Maemo. It is now a project based on the Maemo/Moblin merger attempt (Qt-based) which may end up hooking up with Tizen but hasn't officially done so yet.
  • "Meltemi" is Nokia's next Linux OS which may or may not be a successor to Maemo and/or an Android competitor and/or the fifth horseman of the apocalypse and/or something else entirely. Rumor suggests it'll use Qt, but for all we know for sure it could be using OpenMotif or something.

Does that help?
Whats wrong with Meego Harmattan that you want to go to Meltemi?
Anyways, Nokias future in the US is going to be Windows. Forever.