Thread: Hope that MeeGo v1.2 for N900 can be Usable !
View Single Post
wmarone is offline wmarone
2010-11-17 , 16:46
Posts: 1,746 | Thanked: 2,100 times | Joined on Sep 2009
#18
Good to see the misinformation slush is being pumped out at high volume.

Originally Posted by sethkha View Post
I am with you. I think we should forget about MeeGo, and support the Developers here.
If you target Qt 4.7 then chances are your software will work on both MeeGo and Maemo 5.

The only advantage seems to be portrait mode or the home screen itself. This will be solved in Maemo in the future i think. Most (all?) Apps will run in Maemo to.
That and the ability to actually create a "community distribution" with up to date system packages, much of which is tied down due to the closed bits of the OS that Maemo 5 still has.

Originally Posted by mvuori View Post
just about nobody who talks about it has any clue of what it is or what it does or what it does differently or better than something else - on a N900 or similar. I know I don't.
And it shows. MeeGo is a middleware layer. It provides the software stack from the kernel up through the userspace, supplying APIs for pretty much everything you might want to do.

MeeGo is not the end result. That last step has to be taken by those who adopt it for their devices. The N900 release of MeeGo is a reference implementation, to be used as a target for development.

People have just gotten this notion that every last year's operating system is not good anymore and the new one must be so much better - even if it were underdeveloped, fragile, slow and had no applications or just some cut-down versions...
The reason people are gravitating towards MeeGo is for two reasons:
- Maemo has numerous closed source parts, which limits the ability for users to truly update and fix it.
- MeeGo pulls in way more from upstream, meaning it is consistently more up to date than Maemo.

You could create a derivative of MeeGo with full support for the N900 that was completely customized in ways that you absolutely can't with Maemo. There are closed bits we can't get around but fortunately they aren't part of the OS itsef, only the device-specific periphery.

Originally Posted by twigleaf1976 View Post
And I thought I was the only one that was bored of the hype Meego was getting.
Jeez, you must be full of rage at all the hype the iPhone and Android get. Comparatively, MeeGo has been "on the down low."

I thought from reading on this forum that Meego was the saviour of Nokia, that it was going to take it to new heights. I always doubted that as Nokia don't understand many things, like time scales, competition, end world users real needs and the reality that naming conventions of something that begins with 1.x is used on a finished product and development tools should be reserved to something with a 0.x naming scheme.
So basically your beef lies with Nokia, not MeeGo. They aren't the sole force behind it.

Interesting to hear that perhaps meego isn't the Jesus killer OS. And I am not the one saying it. Which is nice.
Indeed, that'd make you appear ignorant instead of the other guy.

I can understand the logic of making wCDMA choices, but the two largest world economines use it, and Nokia will only lose out on those lucrative markets. But what do I know, I am not on the Nokia board. Maybe they know something we don't.
You... do realize that WCDMA is GSM 3G, not the Qualcomm CDMA standard? And frankly, you can get away with WCDMA/HSPA in pretty much every country.

Originally Posted by daperl View Post
A hope thread? Really? I thought religion and politics weren't allowed on this site.
This is not a hope thread, it's a MeeGo-bashing misinformation thread.
 

The Following 6 Users Say Thank You to wmarone For This Useful Post: