Thread: Meego 1.1 RC?
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2010-10-04 , 19:33
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#52
Originally Posted by casper27 View Post
To quote Quim Gil
"This would be way clearer if they didn't rebrand it as MeeGo yet, but they wanted to get the marketing behind that brand already. You can think of Harmattan as half MeeGo. The next release after Harmattan will be Nokia's first full MeeGo. "
Pretty clear to me.
Can we get up some kind of a list between the differences between tjhe three "OS:es" so we dont get million threads about this

Differences between Maemo5 and Nokias "branded Meego(Harmattan)" (as far as we know atleast):

* QT instead of GTK+ as "desktop UI"
* QT (Console) in top of GLIB as backend daemons etc...
* MeegoTouch UI framework in top of QT core
* Hopefully a QT based FULLY working OviMaps (same as N8 but we cant be sure but hope...)

Similar to Maemo5:

* Still linux kernel
* still debian package manager
* Frameworks: QT Mobility that probadly will be fully supported in upcoming 1.3 of Maemo5 (very strongly atleast)
* QT4.7 (atleast in extras-devel)
* alot of backend daemons still the same. Some rewritted in QT.
* GStreamer multimedia backend?`(not sure about this can someone confirm?)
* Possibility to develop apps in Python
* QML development via QTCreator
* C/C++ support via QTCreator
* And i think, but I am not sure, that MeegoTouch framework will be possible to backport to Maemo5 (I base this on the facts that we already have MeegoTouch widgets gallery demo in extras-devel

Differences between core Meego and Nokias branded Meego(Harmattan):

* Some closed apps, drivers and adobe flash etc..
* Hopefully cooler UI than core Meego UI
* Debian package manager instead of RPM

As we can see in above list there is not that much differences between Maemo5 and Meego/Harmattan the difference will be even less for endusers. And in the case of Meego/Harmattan I could understand Nokia in that case it takes time to port from RPM to DEB as an example... Also we will never see a fully open sourced HW based product. There will always bee closed components and without them Meego is ripdead project. (I base this facts on that I have NEVER seen a pfully working product based on fully open sourced drivers etc... and endusers does want Flash/DRM and so on..). BUT hopefully Meego atleast will be more open than android... and with a good development framework like QT and QML Nokia hoppefully soon back in bussiness IF nokia release a Meego product ASAP.
Last edited by mikecomputing; 2010-10-04 at 19:41.
 

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