Thread: October Launch
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Originally Posted by n900faniam View Post
Could I ask why Mike? I agree Maemo is a great os, but from what I've seen and heard about meego it looks like a natural update for maemo users.
atm. what we have seen of Meego OS its not that great. Maemo still is better. Ofcourse MeeGo will improve alot but still Maemo will not die. The apps created for Meego will most tjhe time work on Maemo to cause of QT(Mobility) will be supported in both platforms.

Thing is I still dont get why people is so afraid of lacking support of Meego from Nokia. It is a bussines decision and there is alot of reasons for that. It would take Nokia a hell of time to debug and test MeeGo on N900 thats probadly why they decided to not "officially" support it, but as we already have seen Meego is already inofficially supported by Nokia so for those who really want the "Meego UI" they will have it.

And again Core Linux OS is still the same as in the Maemo case its only "another dist" as I see it...

But there is other issues that make me affraid and that as far as i know TI has for example not fully open sourced the GFX drivers. IS Meego preview even using HW accel GFX? Can this be a reason it will not be supported on N900. I mean Meego will only accept open drivers?

and for those who want shitty adobe flash Is that fully opened!?

We can only hope flash will die anyway that. Its time to progress faster on HTML5 instead (and ofcourse open video codecs)

Last edited by mikecomputing; 2010-08-11 at 19:35.