Warning: This is not MeeGo [LWN.net]

Warning: This is not MeeGo

Posted Jun 21, 2011 15:23 UTC (Tue) by daniels (subscriber, #16193)
In reply to: Warning: This is not MeeGo by arjan
Parent article: Nokia's N9 handset launched

I guess you need to remove the N950 from the MeeGo Community Device Program page then, or at least make it clear that the only way you'd be developing on MeeGo is if you got the N950 running Harmattan, then ported MeeGo Handset to run on it, and removed Harmattan.

You should also probably stop referring to it as MeeGo-Harmattan in meego.com's glossary.

And have a word with the most recent poster on Planet MeeGo (which is displayed on the front page of meego.com), who has just posted an article stating that the N9 runs 'MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan' (sic).

Given these, I'd say that the confusion is fairly understandable ...

-Daniel, who works on neither

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MeeGo is also coming to N950/N9 via community

Posted Jun 21, 2011 15:52 UTC (Tue) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750) [Link]

Well as pointed out in the Quim's blog post, there is that that the MeeGo Community Edition (http://wiki.meego.com/N900) will now expand also to N950 and N9 - so it will be possible to run pure MeeGo there as well and that, unlike Harmattan, is pure FLOSS and community based.

That could be interesting for a plenty of LWN readers (those that don't think of a phone as an appliance they have no deeper interest in), of course pending on how much work there is on the driver side. But given that N950 and N9 are OMAP3, there is a good chance that it's off to relatively quick start regarding basic hw functionality. Then it's simply about innovating UX on the open side, a bit like SHR (http://shr-project.org/) has done with E17 for the Neo FreeRunner, but this time focusing on Qt/QML and more awesomeness with a fast/modern hardware (FreeRunner wasn't that even at launch time in 2008).

And for both Harmattan and MeeGo, the choice of application development platform is Qt, so it makes sense for also meego.com to advertise N950 as a MeeGo development device, even if using it with Harmattan. _Most_ developers that the mass media is talking about are application developers, not distribution/system developers like many LWN readers.

MeeGo is also coming to N950/N9 via community

Posted Jun 22, 2011 2:35 UTC (Wed) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

SHR is for more than just the OpenMoko devices, in fact N900 is among the devices they support. I'd wager they will have N950/N9 support soon after they get their hands on some.

MeeGo is also coming to N950/N9 via community

Posted Jun 22, 2011 5:19 UTC (Wed) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750) [Link]

Yes, so more like this is about competing with SHR's E17 applications (on top of FSO for phone functionality) with Qt/QML on top of oFono or FSO (the latter is not yet packaged in MeeGo).