Re: [OT] MeeGo code coming in March, will run on Atom boards and N900

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Subject: Re: [Slugnet] [OT] MeeGo code coming in March, will run on Atom 
boards and N900
From: lindqvust <[email protected]>
To: slugnet <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, 15 March, 2010 6:59:39 PM
> -------- Original Message  --------
> Subject: Re: [Slugnet] [OT] MeeGo code coming in March, will run on 
> Atom boards and N900
> From: Soh Kam Yung <[email protected]>
> To: slugnet <[email protected]>
> Date: Monday, 15 March, 2010 6:13:39 PM
>
> > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Soh Kam Yung<[email protected]>  
> wrote:
> >>
> >> We'll find out soon.  Available for preorder now
> >> [http://www.nokia.com.sg/find-products/products/n900-preorder] via
> >> this CNet commentary
> >> 
> [http://asia.cnet.com/crave/2010/03/15/is-the-nokia-n900-still-relevant-/]
> >>
> >
> > This does not sound good:
> > 
> [http://asia.cnet.com/crave/2010/03/15/nokia-n900-not-upgradeable-to-meego/]
> > =====
> > Nokia N900 not upgradeable to MeeGo
> >   Damian Koh  |  Mar 15, 2010
> >
> > Dang!
> >
> > This just in from Nokia, in response to our query. "Maemo on Nokia
> > N900 is not upgradeable to MeeGo. The first MeeGo device is targeted
> > to be released during the second half of 2010. However, applications
> > written for Moblin or Maemo Qt APIs will run on MeeGo."
> >
> > That's probably the first official statement we've heard from the
> > Finnish phone-maker regarding the upgradeability of the N900, which
> > runs on Maemo 5, to MeeGo. The open-source Linux operating system
> > which merges Maemo 6 and Moblin 2 was jointly announced by Nokia and
> > Intel last month.
> > [...]
> > =====
>
> Strange. If indeed this statement: "first and very raw baseline to a 
> source and binary repository to build MeeGo trunk on Intel ATOM boards 
> and Nokia N900" rings true, then doesn't that mean that development 
> efforts are being focused on running MeeGo on the N900?
>
> Here's a useful post I found at maemo.org: 
> [http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=45213]
> ====
> Maemo 6 and/or MeeGo on N900: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and 
> Love the Bomb
> [...]
> So, let's start dissection the argument: "Nokia not bringing MeeGo or 
> Maemo6 to N900".
>
> First off, let's look at our raw material - the N900. You see a 
> cellphone. It requires updates from vendor to get new features, it 
> will stop getting updates when vendor stops caring and there's nothing 
> we can do about it.
>
> Instead, I see a mobile computer. Remember your PC? The same way you 
> could install Vista on your PC or XP or even Ubuntu or other crazy 
> operating systems, this is possible on your N900 - you do not have to 
> rely on your hardware vendor to provide a OS for your device. On a PC, 
> you rely on them providing *drivers* for your computer. It's the same 
> on a N900 - drivers, kernel,
> [...]
> Now, can we please stop worrying about all this stuff and love the 
> fact we're having a device as open as a PC to bring us things when a 
> corporate entity might not - and a community capable of bringing us 
> the features anyway? And that we are getting a fully open platform 
> (MeeGo) that we can easily get on our devices. And even so, Maemo5 has 
> a -long- life ahead of it still. You aren't getting forgotten after 
> this announcement.
> [...]
> -- 
> -lindqvust
I found a very informative wiki page from maemo.org.

[http://wiki.maemo.org/What_can_we_realistically_expect#The_MeeGo_project_has_announced_support_for_the_N900.__What_does_it_really_mean_for_my_N900_.3F]

That should address most of our questions. It also addresses the 
confusion behind the blogger (Damian Koh) on CNET Asia claiming that 
Nokia will not offer MeeGo for N900.

-- 
-lindqvust

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