Thread: New N900 or wait for E7 / N9
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wmarone is offline wmarone
2010-09-23 , 23:13
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#15
Originally Posted by Radicalz38 View Post
whats the big deal with meego anyways? You would only be stuck in a QT only based linux OS that is hackable. Just like droid which runs only on java environment. Maemo is still the best. Nothing beats gtk + hildon + QT.
Because Qt is C/C++ and natively compiled, using a standard glibc base with X and a lot of APIs commonly found in most Linux distributions. Hell they're getting rid of Busybox in favor of a standard Gnu user space.

Android uses a pseudo-Java bytecode and provides zero compatibility with existing open source technologies that are found in most Linux distributions today.

Your GTK applications will still be able to run on MeeGo. They never have been, and will continue to not be, able to run on Android. MeeGo and Android are nothing alike.