Thread: Meego 1.1 RC?
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sjgadsby is offline sjgadsby
2010-10-04 , 13:11
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Originally Posted by bsving View Post
Do you know this? or are you speculating?
Since the time of the Moblin-Maemo merger announcement, Nokia has been plainly stating that they are continuing to build Harmattan for their next Maemo MeeGo device. Rather than being fully MeeGo, they've said that Harmattan will be an "instance of MeeGo", a transitional release. For that reason, MeeGo-Harmattan (or MeeGo 1.0 N, if you prefer) still uses DEBs rather than RPMs, etc.

If this is true, then the N9 (the first MeeGo device presumably) makes no sense at all. MeeGo makes no sense, and Maemo makes no sense.
While following the convoluted naming scheme can be troublesome, it sounds as though you're throwing up your hands at more than that. What other frustrations do you see?

This means that MeeGo is not one year, but two years into the future. With the E7 coming, this makes even less sense.
How does the E7 enter into it?

Who, after the N900 episode, will be crazy enough to get a N9 if it is not even running MeeGo?
Oh, it will say MeeGo on the box, though there will be some sort of distinguishing mark attached. The latest trend by Nokia has been to use an "N", as in "MeeGo 1.0 N", though it remains to be seen if that will the be final, official choice.
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