This shouldn't be a "from scratch" effort.

First of all, the entire Linux contingent will form the foundation of what the OS. Its not like they are building the OS from scratch. And Intel and others have a hand in that development too.

As far as the UI goes, they should be able to leverage a lot of the Maemo stuff.

Why is this taking 6 months ?

It doesn't have 40% market share in smartphones.

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news...-analysis.aspx

WTF am i reading this right? didnt i read a few days ago that it was official that meego wasnt coming to the n900?

"This time Nokia did not report N-Series and E-Series sales, but All About Symbian estimated those at about 4.3 million N-Series and 5.7 Million E-Series. That means half of Nokia's smartphones were of the low-cost type. "

Enough said.

You're mixing words.

MeeGo is not coming to the N900 officially. The N900 is, and remains, the ARM development platform for MeeGo. A development platform that doesn't work isn't exactly going to be very useful. So there will continue to be N900 releases for developers and no support for the N900. (Now, when I say for developers I just mean that they aren't going to focus too completely on a "perfect" user experience so much as a "working" one.. but that doesn't mean that it'll wind up crappy, or unusable, or even not ready for end users.. They just won't be releasing it as an official update.)

If I understood Correctly,

Currently Meego 1.0 is available for the N900 BUT does not have a UI, I et that point, what I do not get is the difference of june and october? Too me the N900 is like a computer anyhows so WTF?
Would it be hard to get a UI for the N900 faster

Does the Core Release do everything it suppose to just with out a UI.... I am a little lost...........

Please redirect me

The UX for MeeGo on Handsets has not been released. In June they will start releasing alpha/beta/pre-release/testing/etc to the "open" in order to facilitate the "open" development. What that means is you'll be able to load the UX on your N900 in it's current state.. which, especially in June, is going to be very rudimentary - probably very buggy, and maybe even unusable for day-to-day operation. However, as time goes on, and their development matures, the UX will get more and more stable. In october they are planning (it appears) to have the first official MeeGo Handset UX stable release for MeeGo 1.1.

You can load MeeGo on the N900 today and load XFCE on it I believe... so that gives you MeeGo with a UI if you want MeeGo.. but XFCE is not in any way optimized for touch screens and will be quite clumsy.

That's a bit of misinformation.

The netbook version of Meego released today is for x86 atom processors.

Yes there is a ARM port of Meego in development, yes it will "run" on the N900 - for the explicit purpose of developing for OTHER platforms.

You'll need a fairly decently spec'd computer to run QEMU with ARM target in my experience, just FYI.

So can someone that knows whats going on break this down im dumb terms for peple that dont know much about what is going on. Specifically in point form.