maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - Meego resetting the step X/5 countdown?

	benny1967	2010-05-17 , 05:55
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Originally Posted by silvermountain

I thought the Harmattan device was going to be the first device that was really going to be pushed to the mainstream - if so, isn't it rather deceptive (read: lying) of Nokia to release a phone and say that it is running MeeGo whilst knowing that that is just a re-branded name of a Maemo distro and that following devices may well be running an OS that can never be ported back (hello Maemo 5 for N8x0, hello MeeGo for N900?)?

Your question would only make sense if Maemo and MeeGo were two different operating systems. They are not. They are just two different GNU/Linux distributions. (And if you look at the components used in both projects, you'll see they're not even all that different.)

On top of all that there's Qt and a user interface layer which is not part of MeeGo, but designed by Nokia - most probably with a look and feel that makes Maemo users feel right at home.

So in the end it'll be a bit like having Ubuntu on one PC and Gentoo on the other - which is what I have at home. The names are different, the package formats are different, Ubuntu comes with its own themes... but to me, it's still the same OS: I run the same applications and edit the same config files in the same places.

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