MeeGo

[LazaruX]

Hi,
Nokia and Intel fused together the projects of Moblin (MobileLinux) and Maemo into one great project called MeeGo.
MeeGo 1.0 is released and 1.1 should be released in the following weeks (days - as of october 2010).
As I know at the moment there is no phone using this OS (I may be wrong), but its beeing used a bit on netbooks.

Is there already, or is there any future plan to support this OS?
It's Linux, I don't know which widgset is used, but I am pretty sure Nokia will use this as replacement of Symbian.

Thanks

[Laksen]

It's apparently sneaked into Nokia phones allowing them to dualboot. I don't know the specifics, but there was some news about it recently

I've heard rumors that it'll run a cut down version of X and GTK2. But it'll probably run either that or QT. Which would probably work. Lazarus works for QT on Maemo, so it probably shouldn't be a big problem to get working

BeRo has instructions of how to set it up for Maemo

[LazaruX]

Can you post a link to the Lazarus wiki for Maemo.
Thanks

[JuhaManninen]

As a funny side-note: Smeegol encounters a ring of power
  http://lwn.net/Articles/410039/

I feel the MeeGo project did a mistake by fighting against such name. People create funny and weird names when logging to internet sites (although I use the real name). Open source projects also have funny and weird names. It is normal. Smeegol is such a good name.
Besides, they should understand that any publicity is good publicity, except for fighting about some OS project name.

Is MeeGo based on GTK2 or QT? I still haven't figured out.

Juha

[Phil]

I believe MeeGo is supposed to be Qt, assuming this post is still operative:

http://qt.nokia.com/developer/qtquarterly/qt-joins-forces-with-the-new-meego-os/

(Nokia has hired a former Microsoft guy as CEO and since MeeGo devices are not expected until 2011 a lot could happen between now and then.)

The problem with MeeGo is that it's not clear that the mobile-device world, as big as it is, will support a half dozen Mobile operating systems.

These charts are interesting:

http://www.asymco.com/2010/10/05/the-symmetry-of-share-shifts-in-mobile-phones/

It would appear that having control over your own OS is highly correlated with profits (Apple, RIM), but you have to be able to execute for that to work.

Thanks.

-Phil

[Troodon]

MeeGo is D.O.A.

"Nokia, the world's largest-volume cell phone maker, and software giant Microsoft are joining forces. As part of a new agreement, Nokia will adopt Windows Phone as its choice smartphone platform... Nokia had begun developing a new system called MeeGo, along with Intel. This initiative will be dropped in favor of Windows Phone*."

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/02/11/nokia.microsoft/index.html?hpt=T2

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*Update: not necessarily Windows Phone 7

[Troodon]

Well, looks like this is another one choosing the HTML5 path but native code will also be supported.

https://www.tizen.org/ (formerly https://meego.com/)

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By now, you may have read that The Linux Foundation, with the support of several other companies, announced a new project, Tizen, to build a new operating system for devices. This new project is first and foremost open source, and based on Linux. So it begs the question: why not just evolve MeeGo? We believe the future belongs to HTML5-based applications, outside of a relatively small percentage of apps, and we are firmly convinced that our investment needs to shift toward HTML5. Shifting to HTML5 doesn't just mean slapping a web runtime on an existing Linux, even one aimed at mobile, as MeeGo has been. Emphasizing HTML5 means that APIs not visible to HTML5 programmers need not be as rigid, and can evolve with platform technology and can vary by market segment.

[BigChimp]

Good luck to them. After having Maemo and now Meego development stopped as a dead end, I suspect Tizen will be a failure too (as far as Linux on cell phones/PDAs is concerned).

[Troodon]

Good luck to them. After having Maemo and now Meego development stopped as a dead end, I suspect Tizen will be a failure too (as far as Linux on cell phones/PDAs is concerned).

Meego was focused more on car devices and such than on smartphones/PDAs and Taizen will likely follow in the same path. The one and only Meego-based smarthphone, Nokia N9, is a proof of concept which also provides Nokia with leverage in their deal with Microsoft re switching from Symbian to Windows Phone. I think it's Nokia's way of telling M$ to play nice or else.

[Sternas Stefanos]

Guys, I am waiting for

Nokia N9 (http://swipe.nokia.com/)
with
-MeeGo for Nokia N9 (MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan)
-Apps compliant with Qt 4.7

OS more info https://meego.com/ and
http://www.developer.nokia.com/Devices/Device_specifications/N9/

have fun

[Paul Breneman]

Things are happening:
http://tizentalk.com/2012/05/tizen-developer-smartphone-device-spotted/

Samsung and other phone makers probably want to have another OS (like Tizen) around to keep some pressure on Google (Android) after Google bought Motorola and now are a competitor.

Tizen should be easier to program with Free Pascal since it is more of a standard Linux distro?

[Sternas Stefanos]

My Opinion
Tizen is a dead project
Web Application model ?
JavaScript?

https://developer.tizen.org/sdk/architecture

I have some info for "Ubuntu Phone OS" on the new Intel "Medfield" CPU (i386)

like Xolo X900 with Android i386
http://www.xolo.in/overview

we will see...

[gathlete]

tizan is not a dead project. it uses the EFL  foundation libraries (probably the most efficient and fastest libs around) they are part of the Enlightenment (E17 desktop) project and are found in many embedded projects. bodhi linux (http://bodhilinux.com/) uses e17 as desktop shell.

http://www.enlightenment.org/

project is driven by Carsten Haitzler (original developer) who is employed by SAMSUNG.
lazarus should support the EFL framework just like it supports gtk and qt

[marcov]

Tizen is Samsung indeed. Rumour goes that Samsung last week joined the Linux Foundation (a raison de 1/2 million dollar) because of it. 

[felipemdc]

JavaScript is the worse choice in the world for local applications. WebOS from HP tried that and failed. This looks just yet another disaster which won't pass a 0,0001% market share like WebOS.

People should try a normal Linux way of doing things, like Meego was doing. Meego was only defeated because of the trojan horse that took over Nokia. It sold more then equivalent Windows Phone devices, but was cancelled to make Steve Ballmer happy.

About Samsung, don't forget that it has other platforms to care about already: Android and Wave phones.