I was in two minds about starting this thread.
But in this instance I listened to the voices in my head!

There seems to be rising expectations on the initial release of "MeeGo for the n900".

EDIT (25/3/10): As rightly pointed-out by Attila77 - MeeGo is a generic release (e.g. not tied to n900 hardware)

E.g:
It will beat Chuck Norris in a fight
It will enable the TARDIS hardware (would be very cool - you can go back in time and convince yourself to buy the iPhone instead)

As said many times in this forum the MeeGo release will be a development only.

Only developers who are interested in low-level OS programming will find the initial release useful.

As an end-user this MeeGo release will not be useful to you....yet

Please do not be disappointed when the initial release of MeeGo does not meet your current expectations.

I have no idea what "state" MeeGo will be in when released. It may not even have a GUI yet. It might not even boot properly.
Nokia may never offically support it!

Who knows?

The great thing is when it is released it will be a community developed project. The things you can reasonably expect from a device like this will hopefully be met. "Normal" people like you and I can still get involved and take responsibilty in helping with the efforts.
It does not matter if you can program or not ("it doesn't matter if your black or white" as MJ would say). But there are other ways ways you and I can help - e.g. testing, documentation

Maemo 5 is alive and kicking like a bad-*** Mofo. There are applications appearing daily in the donwloads section and still growing.

I love my n900 more than I love my wife. The n900 is not perfect (my wife is - "love you!") and no device made by anyone else will be either.

It will take time for MeeGo to become "stable" and this could be many months away!

Until MeeGo is in a usable then it is business as usual for Maemo & the n900.

There are many applications languishing in the "testing" repos and needs people to test the applications and provide feedback.

(WARNING: Only do this if you are willing to reflash your device and perform deep voodoo with chicken bones to get your n900 working again. It's called "testing" for a reason and may break stuff!)
IMPORTANT: Testing & Warning

So basically what I am trying to say is when MeeGo is released for the n900 don't be disappointed by it and start b****ing about it in the forums.

A few people here have decided to learn programming because of the n900 and that's great. This is a great opportunity to learn about OS stuff and programming.

It might even help you find Jesus.

You may even decide to give Steve Jobs "the finger".

EDIT (25/3/10): Or is that give Jesus the finger and find Steve Jobs? Are they the same person?

Some stuff to look at:


What_can_we_realistically_expect...
http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras-testing/QA_Checklist

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...3&postcount=17
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=538094&postcount=1
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=559782&postcount=4
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=559784&postcount=5
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...7&postcount=26