I've read it somewhere, just can't find where at the moment, anyway, Harmattan is MeeGo 1.0.

Unless your == means something else a la != :-)

if it helps anyone (MeeGo/Harmattan/Maemo6 confusion):

http://wiki.maemo.org/What_can_we_re...n_features_.3F

Put this MeeGo support in perspective:

- From unstable to stable, if MeeGo doesn't make developers happy it will never make users happy. Developer happiness is a requird milestone no matter what.

- Leaving aside the Nokia-centric perspective, if MeeGo doesn't make users happy by own merits it will give a hard time to device vendors making happy their customers. So again user happiness is basically a milestone for MeeGo no matter what.

Sure, still this doesn't answer the question of Nokia's Harmattan official support and Nokia proprietary apps, but maybe these two axis help you figuring out worst case scenarios.

Intel did pull their Meego titled netbook download. Right now there is no Meego distribution in the wild. Instead of using "!" (not) maybe we should use "~" (approximately) and entitle Maemo 6 "~Meego-N" and Moblin 2.2 "~Meego-I".

You're right, I think qgil says it here:

I'd **** bricks if they spend more resources in unifying the branding elements of MeeGo than actually synchronizing the technical aspects of it.

Hi, I'm grateful for the reply, and don't really want to get into an argument at all, and even with a sentence that is generally a prelude to an argument, I'll just pose a question if I may.

With the N900, I would take this site as ample evidence that developers are very happy with Maemo 5. So I think that milestone has been achieved. Now how about the end user?

Wow, I stop reading for a few hours, and there is already a ton more posts.

To clarify some points to my post.

I never said MeeGo was based on Fedora, only used Fedora in a comparison to upgrading from a Debian base.

Harmattan is just the release name for Maemo 6, Even if they decided to dump Maemo and go with MeeGo, Harmattan was just a release name. For example, Debian Squeeze 6.0, or Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04.

MeeGo, as per their insistence, is RPM based, and so Harmattan, being debian Based (at least that's what they're still saying, right?) would be the next logical choice for our updates.

Unless we're just getting Maemo 5.1.2 or whatever they do their internal versions as.

I've been around Linux for a very long time, and even in the Windows world, you know there are code names for releases. Longhorn became Vista, etc.

If Maemo truly worked like Debian and wasn't tied into the hardware as much as it was, you could theoretically just change /etc/apt/sources.list to use harmattan instead of fremantle and use Maemo 6. Or in the case of the n8xx phones, change diablo to fremantle. Has anyone ever tried this? (sorry if this derails this topic, which is really been chewed to death anyhow).

So again, to clarify.

MeeGo = RPM based distribution (it's own flavor (flavour for the UK crowd)

Harmattan / Maemo 6 = QT4.6 Debian based with some API / UI changes that MeeGo will also have. In essence, MeeGo+Debian = Awesome IMO (whether we get this update is still to be seen)

N900 = Awesome phone/mobile computer. As a side thing I thought funny, when I loaded up blueman on my Debian box this morning, it detected the N900 as a 'Computer' rather than a phone.

slaapliedje

it is true, you cannot "upgrade" between two different operating systems, like say from Windows XP to Ubuntu, but you can always install a fresh operating system instead, which will require some "flashing" and some "hacking" for it to cope well with any given hardware

m2cm2c- how do u know we could install meego on the n900. what specs does meego require- the nokia is pretty low powered compared to all these other htc's or apples coming out.

and you gotta understand that the software has to run the hardware- there may be limitations on the n900's design.

its pretty obvious that meego is not gonna work on the n900- and if it does it will not work effectively.

just give it up..

and get real xp to ubunto isnt exactly an upgrade is it-..

nokia you are a bunch of %$N)S