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Originally Posted by xerxes2 View Post
Meego is based on Fedora which is a normal linux/x11 distro and since I've been a linux user since 1998 i can say I've seen meego lots of times. This is what people don't seem to get that as long as the system uses linux/x11 and comes with a c compiler it doesn't matter if it's called Maemo or Meego or something else. All gazillions of open source apps that already exists will run just fine with slight modifications to squeeze it into a smaller display.
I got yelled at for claiming MeeGo is a UI layer on top of regular Linux. I was told that MeeGo has "layers" that make it MeeGo and that's why Smeegol wasn't MeeGo. I'm assuming that MeeGo's employing a new desktop framework or something (for notifications, data sharing, etc.) and apps will need to take advantage of those libraries to be fully integrated, but I don't know. That's because we haven't seen MeeGo yet. I don't believe any pics of the final smartphone UI (unlike the tablet UI) were ever released.
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