Reply
Thread Tools
Helmuth's Avatar
Posts: 1,259 | Thanked: 1,341 times | Joined on Oct 2009 @ Germany
#81
Originally Posted by 3beers View Post
oh. so you say that the N9 will have the future version of maemo branded as meego? so it means that it will be debian based and not fedora?
Exactly. As far as we know at the moment:
The N9 with MeeGo (Harmattan) is still debian based. It's maemo 6 with the MeeGo brand on top. The next Device after the N9 will get the fedora based MeeGo. But perhaps we will see not so many differences. The UI for booth devices is based on the same system: Qt.
 
Posts: 55 | Thanked: 55 times | Joined on Sep 2010
#82
Originally Posted by Helmuth View Post
Exactly. As far as we know at the moment:
The N9 with MeeGo (Harmattan) is still debian based. It's maemo 6 with the MeeGo brand on top. The next Device after the N9 will get the fedora based MeeGo. But perhaps we will see not so many differences. The UI for booth devices is based on the same system: Qt.
Thanks. but this comes to my second question. will the maemo 6 (meego branded) be updated to the real meego 1.2 once it will be available( official I mean) ?

also based on this pic : only moblin 2.2 is branded as meego 1.0

I think we will wait and see.
 

The Following 5 Users Say Thank You to 3beers For This Useful Post:
pelago's Avatar
Posts: 2,121 | Thanked: 1,540 times | Joined on Mar 2008 @ Oxford, UK
#83
Originally Posted by 3beers View Post
will the maemo 6 (meego branded) be updated to the real meego 1.2 once it will be available( official I mean) ?
I don't think Nokia have made any announcements about that, so we don't know.
 

The Following User Says Thank You to pelago For This Useful Post:
Posts: 1,258 | Thanked: 672 times | Joined on Mar 2009
#84
Not so sure about the "reusing old stuff" aspect of A8.

TI has itself only last month managed to get its new Beagleboard into limited production with the new 1Ghz omap3, still US only according to their page.

The 600MHz beagbleboard was available a long time before N900 with 600Mhz processor was announced. (In the meanwhile TI also released a 720MHz version).
 
Posts: 435 | Thanked: 197 times | Joined on Feb 2010
#85
I don't think the question has been asked so far so here I go...

If I don't trust MeeGo so far... When the N9 comes out, wouid I be able to flash the device with Maemo? Because I am currently very satisfied with Maemo...
 
Posts: 5,335 | Thanked: 8,187 times | Joined on Mar 2007 @ Pennsylvania, USA
#86
Originally Posted by IsaacDFP View Post
If I don't trust MeeGo so far... When the N9 comes out, wouid I be able to flash the device with Maemo? Because I am currently very satisfied with Maemo...
No. Due to hardware differences, firmware images for the N900 will not simply flash onto the MeeGo-Harmattan device.

It might be possible to get Maemo 5 running on the MeeGo-Harmattan device, but doing so would take some work. There's an effort underway to rebuild Maemo 5 on top of a MeeGo base, and if that's successful, then that will be your solution.
__________________
maemo.org profile
 

The Following 6 Users Say Thank You to sjgadsby For This Useful Post:
Posts: 1,258 | Thanked: 672 times | Joined on Mar 2009
#87
I didn't know there was an effort for maemo5 ontop of MeeGo base.. Got a link?
 
Helmuth's Avatar
Posts: 1,259 | Thanked: 1,341 times | Joined on Oct 2009 @ Germany
#88
Originally Posted by 3beers View Post
Thanks. but this comes to my second question. will the maemo 6 (meego branded) be updated to the real meego 1.2 once it will be available( official I mean) ?

also based on this pic : only moblin 2.2 is branded as meego 1.0
Based on this pic I can't see any difference between Handset and Tablet. I think Harmattan is a other thing... perhaps starting from MeeGo v1.2 they are based on the same core?

It's very confusing. And I'm sure, the most people at Intel or Nokia, don't understand it, too.
Please read here at Texrat's Blog for more information about it:
MeeGo-Harmattan Hybrid Naming

This is one of the biggest confusion generators I’ve seen come from Team Maemo. After MeeGo was first formally announced, the next release of Maemo (code named Harmattan) came into question. Word from Nokia was that a Harmattan device was still on track for release but it would not be branded as a Maemo product. Instead, Harmattan would be deemed as “an instance of MeeGo” and was referred to as “MeeGo-Harmattan”.

That might not be a problem, except for one little detail: MeeGo relies on the RPM approach to application packaging, whereas Harmattan will continue with the DEB format used by Maemo. This makes “MeeGo-Harmattan” a transitional hybrid.

Why Nokia doesn’t just go ahead with the Maemo 6 label just for this release I’m not sure… but the hybrid naming has resulted in significant confusion in the Maemo community. For that reason I proposed at talk.maemo.org that Nokia come up with some official name making clear the transitional nature of the upcoming OS.

I have not seen any movement on this lately, so to prod Nokia along I have some suggestions:

MidGo
MinMo
…or even MaeGo
I’m sure the creative bunch reading this will have ideas too, right?
But for the really important stuff, update the Harmattan Device to real meego: I would wait until the Device AND the Update to Meego 1.2 is released. I will do so. If there is no update path (because of the total different core system (maemo/meego) I would advise to wait for the successor of the N9 and don't buy this device.
 

The Following User Says Thank You to Helmuth For This Useful Post:
Posts: 435 | Thanked: 197 times | Joined on Feb 2010
#89
I personally think it would be wiser for Nokia to completly drop Maemo 6/Harmattan and fully focus on MeeGo... I don't see a reason for Harmattan to exist when MeeGo will begin. Although I am all for Maemo 2.0 for future references.

Last edited by IsaacDFP; 2010-09-27 at 15:49.
 

The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to IsaacDFP For This Useful Post:
Helmuth's Avatar
Posts: 1,259 | Thanked: 1,341 times | Joined on Oct 2009 @ Germany
#90
Originally Posted by IsaacDFP View Post
I personally think it would be wiser for Nokia to completly drop Maemo 6/Harmattan and fully focus on MeeGo... I don't see a reason for Harmattan to exist when MeeGo will begin.
The reasoning is simple: MeeGo Handset is not ready yet!
 

The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to Helmuth For This Useful Post:
Reply


 
Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 01:09.