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2011-05-29
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2011-05-29
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Dan,
there is no "Official" version for N900.
Handset Ux is available for arm and ia32.
There is a Developer Edition for N900 which contains bits and peices from the Handset UX (trunk) and the N900 Hardware Adaption Team's work.
Closed source components include BME, SGX, wireless and some sysinfo stuff specific to the N900.
Current build provides for BASIC telephony and SMS functionality.
Calender (buggy), contacts (V Basic), xterm, wifi, bluetooth etc,picture, music and video (all a bit buggy) etc.
you can make and receive calls and send/receive sms.
Update via xterm using zypper works, but there are some issues woth some packages.
It's a classic alpha/beta release and should not, in any way be seen or assumed to be a "complete" release.
the people working on this are doing a great job and I expect, given time and more community developer input, this will become a viable alternative OS for the N900, and not just for devs/hackers.
Just my .02c
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2011-05-29
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@ Australia
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2011-05-29
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One of the big challenges is that, unlike the netbook/tablet builds which have had Intel to support driver development for their harware/chipsets, providing rapid ability to deploy onto existing hardware platforms (many of which are the same/alike), the handset builds are only really available for a small amount of devices, thanks to proprietory drivers and hardware.
as a result, there isn't the "market" to entice developer support and the UI supplied with the vanilla handset UX builds is very basic. the design of the UI is pretty straight forward and allows for some big changes without a massive amount of code. what we need is some of the talented theme makers here at TMO to dedicate some time to contribute to the n900DE project.
"prettying" up the UI will go a long way to enticing more people to contribute, if only, like me, as testers/bug reporters.
those who have already developed qt apps for fremantle could look at doing builds of their stable stuff for Meego, which in turn will provde enhancement for the project, leaving the N900 Dev team to focus on getting the base build 100% solid.
as an aside, i'm using one of the latest images on my N900 as a daily phone (restricted, of course!) and the phone app is more responsive than the fremantle debacle....
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2011-05-29
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One of the big challenges is that, unlike the netbook/tablet builds which have had Intel to support driver development for their harware/chipsets, providing rapid ability to deploy onto existing hardware platforms (many of which are the same/alike), the handset builds are only really available for a small amount of devices, thanks to proprietory drivers and hardware.
as a result, there isn't the "market" to entice developer support and the UI supplied with the vanilla handset UX builds is very basic. the design of the UI is pretty straight forward and allows for some big changes without a massive amount of code. what we need is some of the talented theme makers here at TMO to dedicate some time to contribute to the n900DE project.
"prettying" up the UI will go a long way to enticing more people to contribute, if only, like me, as testers/bug reporters.
those who have already developed qt apps for fremantle could look at doing builds of their stable stuff for Meego, which in turn will provde enhancement for the project, leaving the N900 Dev team to focus on getting the base build 100% solid.
as an aside, i'm using one of the latest images on my N900 as a daily phone (restricted, of course!) and the phone app is more responsive than the fremantle debacle....
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2011-05-29
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2011-05-29
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2011-05-29
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that is not an official release its de germany one if you goto this site http://wiki.meego.com/Release_Engineering/Plans/1.2 there you can see there release plan which is changed a few times already
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2011-05-29
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One of the big challenges is that, unlike the netbook/tablet builds which have had Intel to support driver development for their harware/chipsets, providing rapid ability to deploy onto existing hardware platforms (many of which are the same/alike), the handset builds are only really available for a small amount of devices, thanks to proprietory drivers and hardware.
as a result, there isn't the "market" to entice developer support and the UI supplied with the vanilla handset UX builds is very basic. the design of the UI is pretty straight forward and allows for some big changes without a massive amount of code. what we need is some of the talented theme makers here at TMO to dedicate some time to contribute to the n900DE project.
"prettying" up the UI will go a long way to enticing more people to contribute, if only, like me, as testers/bug reporters.
those who have already developed qt apps for fremantle could look at doing builds of their stable stuff for Meego, which in turn will provde enhancement for the project, leaving the N900 Dev team to focus on getting the base build 100% solid.
as an aside, i'm using one of the latest images on my N900 as a daily phone (restricted, of course!) and the phone app is more responsive than the fremantle debacle....
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there is no "Official" version for N900.
Handset Ux is available for arm and ia32.
There is a Developer Edition for N900 which contains bits and peices from the Handset UX (trunk) and the N900 Hardware Adaption Team's work.
Closed source components include BME, SGX, wireless and some sysinfo stuff specific to the N900.
Current build provides for BASIC telephony and SMS functionality.
Calender (buggy), contacts (V Basic), xterm, wifi, bluetooth etc,picture, music and video (all a bit buggy) etc.
you can make and receive calls and send/receive sms.
Update via xterm using zypper works, but there are some issues woth some packages.
It's a classic alpha/beta release and should not, in any way be seen or assumed to be a "complete" release.
the people working on this are doing a great job and I expect, given time and more community developer input, this will become a viable alternative OS for the N900, and not just for devs/hackers.
Just my .02c
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