MeeGo conference: Intel's and Nokia's visions of MeeGo

Posted Nov 18, 2010 0:09 UTC (Thu) by klbrun (subscriber, #45083)
In reply to: MeeGo conference: Intel's and Nokia's visions of MeeGo by hingo
Parent article: MeeGo conference: Intel's and Nokia's visions of MeeGo

True for Maemo, but for Meego Nokia is now under the influence of Intel. It is telling that Nokia is not going to replace Maemo with Meego on the N900.

MeeGo conference: Intel's and Nokia's visions of MeeGo

Posted Nov 18, 2010 11:34 UTC (Thu) by zmower (subscriber, #3005) [Link] (3 responses)

Why would Nokia upgrade consumers to meego when they want them to buy their latest device? For hackers, upgrade to meego will be trivial (one parameter different on the flash command). And completely at our own risk. ;)

As for openness, I will have only two criteria : can I still get root and is most of the source available. Given that these are both true for N900 I'm hoping that it will remain true for future meego devices from Nokia.

MeeGo conference: Intel's and Nokia's visions of MeeGo

Posted Nov 18, 2010 12:11 UTC (Thu) by Tronic (guest, #59702) [Link] (1 responses)

Nokia already offers Meego for N900 users. You can install the other OS on on your MicroSDHC card and easily multiboot to whichever you want, or you can flash your device with it. However, what we have now is very early implementation and most of the userspace functionality (not to mention graphical gimmicks) seem to be missing. It also runs very slowly on the N900, so I suspect that new hardware will be necessary to make it run properly.

The CPU and other specs of N900 are perfectly fine but 256 MB RAM simply isn't enough for modern desktop Linux which is what Maemo and Meego are.

MeeGo conference: Intel's and Nokia's visions of MeeGo

Posted Nov 24, 2010 13:24 UTC (Wed) by Tuna-Fish (guest, #61751) [Link]

Swapping to flash is relatively painless on the N900. I have never yet cursed running out of memory while using it. They mush be doing something right?

MeeGo conference: Intel's and Nokia's visions of MeeGo

Posted Nov 18, 2010 18:45 UTC (Thu) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955) [Link]

The N900 (and its Maemo-based predecessors) seem to be intended more as developer platforms than consumer products. AFAIK there is no separate developer system recommended for Maemo.