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Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
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.
Indeed. To me Harmattan is the OS from Nokia that have finally gone full circle and is all about Qt. Symbian^4 following later.
I don't think MeeGo 1.1 will be as big thing to me as a user as Harmattan.