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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
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