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2011-04-20 , 05:10
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Originally Posted by mishmich View Post
I apologise for my negative comments. I do get a bit frustrated when hopes are raised, then squashed, if I express disbelief and get told I am ignorant and this will happen on such-and-such-a-date, and it doesn't. I am a skeptic, but would love to be proven wrong. Also, some of my comments are intended to be humerous, but I think sometimes they read as if they are serious. I do hope the MeeGo/Nokia folks do manage to get this together, and that we get the opportunity of using it on the n900. That would be quite exciting. But, until I see it for myself, I remain skeptical. Sorry.
To be perfectly clear so I'm sure you and me are on same page:
* Defining platform: Something others can use to build a product using. It is not a end-user product.

* Defining MeeGo.com: A open project that has several members including Nokia, Intel, LG, ZTE, etc. They work together in the open to deliver a proper platform for them to base products off.

* The release schedules on wiki.meego.com relate to MeeGo the platform, so what is delayed is the platform. This was done as there had to be a significant change in plans after Feb11 and architectual changes due to changed requirements. As well as, well, that the project went sort of stagnant during the shock after Feb11

* MeeGo.com has next to nothing to do with the Harmattan OS, which is more like a Maemo6

* Nokia's next device will be Harmattan as stated several times.

* We have an effort ongoing that uses the Nokia N900 as a testing device for all MeeGo.com ARM activities. Since we have to test all sorts of middleware, our hardware adaptation is quite good and includes power management, camera support and many other good things. This is the 'hardware adaptation' team. This team rarely touches the UI

* We have an effort ongoing, the Developer Edition work (a open project and open source), which takes the work from MeeGo.com platform, puts it together with the Nokia N900 work and tries to bring it to a level where this condition is met: "Target is to make a Developer Edition of MeeGo for the Nokia N900 device. Flashed with this edition N900 will be usable as a primary phone device for a developer/hacker person. This is not for regular Maemo 5 end users.".

What you can do with this DE stuff is very powerful, but you need to do a lot of things yourself, contribute, help build the system, but because of the N900 hardware adaptation and platform work done, a lot of the -very difficult- parts that would normally make a community stumble are already solved.

My hope is that by summer, we have a OS that you can customize and hack to your hearts extent - this is of course not a end-user product. And even keep it in your pocket without the risk of not having children (we have power management!)

* This work has nothing to do with any Harmattan backport to N900 and I believe that particular backport project is dead as a stone as no SDK's or code has been published. Won't be coming, probably.

Hope that helps clear things up on what's going on. All this is happening in the open and you can follow it on meego.com wiki and IRC channels/mailing lists and you can even download development snapshots.
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