Wonderful news. Yet another win for Linux.
I hope both communities merge well and come out stronger.
Moblin is really nice on netbooks. And all of us here are Maemo fans anyway.
I think they would complement each other. :-)

Yeah! This is what I had hoped for since July 2007. Moblin and Maemo had always been so close...

Yes, they said that Meego will support multiple hardware platforms and that just simply has to include ARM considering that they basicly listed every possible kind of mobile device from phones to in vehicle devices.


EDIT:
From Ari Jaaksi's blog:


It’ll run on X86 and on Arm based hardware.

This is really scary.

Will Maemo 5 receive any sort of updates now that Nokia has embraced (yet) another new project?

Are the next Maemo 6 powered devices moving to x86 platform?

If Meego is the next Maemo 6, will it run on N900? (considering Intel is an x86 provider I supose not).

Will Moblin lost all of it's Clutter based goodies to adopt Qt?

Will Meego run on any x86 based PC as any other Linux distro? Does it means that Maemo is not a Mobile Computer platform but a common Linux distro?

Sincerely I can't understand Nokia's strategy, while Apple's and Google's appear very clear to me.

Right now, I'm loving this move.

"Netbook, Pocketables, In-Vehicle, Connected TV, Media phone"

I hope this does not delay the next products.
Maemo 5 is very usable, and Moblin 2.1 is almost usable in my opinion (a little too much bugs in my opinion).

HopeMeeGo helps to promote linux

great news for the community, not so great unless its worked back to all the punters that bought an N900 and are in 18 / 24 month contracts...


from twitter.....
@FoneArena

Just asked a question if nokia n900 will get meego .. got an answer that developers could make transition easily. .. dunno if consumers can

Great news for me. Less Linux fragmentation, more shared resources to build future open source applications.

i agree that the name is poor.

as for "why not use established name": have you read flor's blog? he is happy two big egos of intel and nokia are able to cooperate. it seems, however, that these two egos needed new name to go on with the "merger". :-)

That sounds like a rather unfortunate turn. I'd hoped that Nokia had a stronger vision for the maemo platform! Now they're already cobbling it up again. How's that helping with building a strong community??

Also, what the heck is intel up to? their only asset is x86 technology! why are they investing in creating an open, portable platform that would be architecture-independent? as soon as people have the free choice of architecture for running their software, intel will be crunched by ARM.