Warning: This is not MeeGo

Posted Jun 21, 2011 15:08 UTC (Tue) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: Warning: This is not MeeGo by paulj
Parent article: Nokia's N9 handset launched

Oh, and the Meego article says that N9 uses Meego:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeeGo

(Who you going to believe, some random LWN commenter or Wikipedia? :) )

Warning: This is not MeeGo

Posted Jun 21, 2011 15:22 UTC (Tue) by blitzkrieg3 (guest, #57873) [Link]

arjan is hardly a "random" LWN commenter.

But aside from that, Wikipedia seems to be in agreement:

> Even though MeeGo was initiated as collaboration between Nokia and Intel, the collaboration was formed when Nokia was already developing the next incarnation of its Maemo Linux distribution. As a result, the Maemo 6 base operating system will be kept intact while the Handset UX will be shared, with the name changed to MeeGo/Harmattan

Translation: We're still using Maemo under the hood with a bolted on MeeGo API and UX.

Personally I'm curious how easy it would be to get MeeGo on the device, if the Handset UX truly can be used for both.

Warning: This is not MeeGo

Posted Jun 21, 2011 15:26 UTC (Tue) by gowen (guest, #23914) [Link]

Given that the official MeeGo glossary describe Harmattan as future Maemo 6 (now MeeGo handheld) release by Nokia, but goes on to say

It is MeeGo compatible (that is, has a MeeGo API) but is not to be confused with MeeGo 1.0 Handheld as it is NOT based on MeeGo Core.

suggests to me that the nomenclature has gotten out of hand.