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2012-03-13
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2012-03-13
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2012-03-13
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I'm not a developer or major community wrangler or anything, but the way the various projects look to me...
- "Maemo" is/was Nokia's Internet Tablets OS based on Debian, using the GTK Hildon framework plus ever-increasing amounts of Qt.
- "Moblin" is/was Intel and the Linux Foundation's OS based more or less on Mandriva, using a GTK framework of some kind.
- "MeeGo" is a failed merger attempt between Maemo and Moblin - Mandriva base plus Qt framework. It has also been used as the name of Maemo version 6, which wholeheartedly embraced Qt.
- "Tizen" is essentially Intel/LF's successor to Moblin, with a few Maemo folks involved, using HTML5 As A Software Framework and EFL. (Incidentally, that last leaves me screaming in horror.)
- "Mer" WAS originally a community update project (Hildon-based) that was to be a successor to Maemo. It is now a project based on the Maemo/Moblin merger attempt (Qt-based) which may end up hooking up with Tizen but hasn't officially done so yet.
- "Meltemi" is Nokia's next Linux OS which may or may not be a successor to Maemo and/or an Android competitor and/or the fifth horseman of the apocalypse and/or something else entirely. Rumor suggests it'll use Qt, but for all we know for sure it could be using OpenMotif or something.
Does that help?
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2012-03-13
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2012-03-13
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To me it appears that Meltemi starts from scratch for S40. Without much Maemo heritage.
Nokia smartphones won't get another Linux anyway. Meltemi is for feature phones, and that division of Nokia is heaed by Mary McDowell instead of Elop.
It could be that Elop doesn't have much to say on Meltemi.
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2012-03-13
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2012-03-13
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Of course there is a plan B, only that plan is irrelevant for the Nokia/MS partnership and certainly irrelevant for MS and any future Nokia/MS ecosystem. The future lies in controlling an ecosystem, not making OS'es or hardware. OS and hardware are merely the wrapping.
Plan B is Android regardless.
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2012-03-14
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2012-03-14
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buysomethinelse, it's undead, maemo's dead, meego's dead, r-d-f, tizen lives, winding down |
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Does that help?
Last edited by Viqsi; 2012-03-13 at 19:48. Reason: mark up the list