I've seen a couple of side-discussions on something I'm kind of interested in - whether MeeGo will run on hardware that wasn't explicitly designed for it to run on...
>From what I've seen on the list so far, I expect that MeeGo will run quite well on most modern netbooks, laptops, and probably on most generic ARM based tablets, etc. What I'm a little more interested in is cellphones. I think I've seen someone post that they expect MeeGo to install fine on things like the Nexus One, and other android phones. I can believe that it would *install*, and would probably run reasonably well as a hand-held linux box. The big question is - would it work well as a phone? I know from my experience with my OpenMoko Freerunner that it can be non-trivial to build a reliable phone software stack even when you are working with a very open and well documented hardware stack. Is it really reasonable to expect that the generic MeeGo Phone UX reference implementation can be dropped onto a 'generic' phone, and give reliable phone service? If not, is it understood yet how much effort it would take to support a specific phone stack? Will it even be feasible? I mean, I love my N900 (most of the time) - but I'd like to know how wide my range of choices will be when I finally decided to upgrade my phone... Warren -- Warren Baird - Photographer and Digital Artist http://www.synergisticimages.ca _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list MeeGo-dev@meego.com http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
