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qhorse is offline qhorse
2010-02-16 , 14:59
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#81
This isn't reassuring :

Blogger Ari Jaaksi said...

Calm down guys. Changing packaging doesn't mean dropping Maemo. It is just packaging ...

Maemo was a Nokia internal distro only. Really. MeeGo distro will be built in the open. And activly supported for others to use ... unlike Maemo. This is the opennes you were always asked.

For the Maemo community members ... this is a good news. We really need you now! This is the next step.

N900 is a good purchase. MeeGo will give it much more applications to run as explained.

Will there be a full MeeGo port on N900? I'm pretty sure there will be a MeeGo port on N900 for those who wanna play with it. There is also an Andoid, Mac, ..and god knows what ports available. It is an open devivice. N900 will run a lot of MeeGo apps ... and developers and users will fully utilize it.

There are no product or other software announcements from Nokia at the moment. We will keep you posted on the development.

N900 is open. MeeGo will be developed in open. Now use the openness, please!
Source : https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?bl...23965775&pli=1
Looks like N900 won't be "officially" upgradable to MeeGo... sucks
 

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stayloa is offline stayloa
2010-02-16 , 15:15
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#82
Its a bit stupid making parallels with Android and Mac ports though - the Android one hasn't even been fully realised and the person that got OSX booting did so with a 2 hour boot time...

Then again, I'm sure a clever fellow on here will be able to port Meego to Maemo
 

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oskarmat is offline oskarmat
2010-02-16 , 15:34
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#83
Guys... go take a step outside, see what's shaking in the real world
 
shady is offline shady
2010-02-16 , 16:23
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#84
they have been partners on this since before the rx-51 was leaked ...

ofono, ring a bell?
 

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openfone is offline openfone
2010-02-16 , 16:43
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#85
One of the major reasons I bought a n900 over an iPhone was the ethos of apple releasing a new OS/upgrade and then forcing you to buy a new phone as well. I will be very very unhappy if Nokia does the same.
 
Rob1n is offline Rob1n
2010-02-16 , 16:51
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#86
Originally Posted by openfone View Post
One of the major reasons I bought a n900 over an iPhone was the ethos of apple releasing a new OS/upgrade and then forcing you to buy a new phone as well. I will be very very unhappy if Nokia does the same.
I'm not a fan of Apple but, to be fair, they've made the new OS updates available for all iPhones so far (though you may need to pay for it).
 

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G66J is offline G66J
2010-02-16 , 17:05
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#87
All this talk of MeeGo and the N900 being open is all very good but the stuff that matters - the kernel and the drivers for the device are not open. In the MeeGo press release it said that it will be up to the device manufacturers to provide the kernels and drivers.

As far as I know the kernel and drivers are not open for the N900 under Maemo5 so why would Nokia open them for MeeGo. I'm sure they have some IT they'd want to keep to themselves. I'm not a programmer but my understanding is that without the proper kernel and drivers you're not going to get the OS to work and fully utilise the devices hardware.

Whether some clever devs manage to reverse engineer things is a different story. I'm sure it'll happen as it's been happening in the Linux desktop world for ages.
 
wmarone is offline wmarone
2010-02-16 , 17:17
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Originally Posted by G66J View Post
All this talk of MeeGo and the N900 being open is all very good but the stuff that matters - the kernel and the drivers for the device are not open. In the MeeGo press release it said that it will be up to the device manufacturers to provide the kernels and drivers.
Well yes, they are developing the hardware after all. So it's up to the community to pressure vendors choosing MeeGo to provide that level of support (especially pushing drivers upstream, which makes life easier on them down the line.)

As far as I know the kernel and drivers are not open for the N900 under Maemo5 so why would Nokia open them for MeeGo.
They are, that you think they aren't shows how little you know. Everything that is closed is in user space, the kernel is fully open even if not all drivers are upstream yet.
 
openfone is offline openfone
2010-02-16 , 17:22
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Originally Posted by Rob1n View Post
I'm not a fan of Apple but, to be fair, they've made the new OS updates available for all iPhones so far (though you may need to pay for it).
I got burnt early on with an iPod and have never forgiven Apple
 
openfone is offline openfone
2010-02-16 , 17:25
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Originally Posted by Tintin View Post
Nokia just gave their most avid fans an atomic wedgie AND shoved their heads down the toilet - and it's pretty amusing to see that some of them don't even take the time to dry their hair before they start chanting that this was a good wedgie and that in the long-term the toilet-shower is exactly what they had hoped for since day one.

I thought I had seen fanboys on apple forums but my hat off to you people - you just took the cake.

A urinal cake unfortunately. But still.
I second that, funniest post I have seen all week
 
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