You've
seen it teased, and now it's time to shelve whatever you had planned for this evening (or morning, depending on your current coordinates) and slap the first bona fide 1.x
MeeGo release onto whatever device you've got handy. As of right now, MeeGo v1.0 for Netbooks and v1.0 for Nokia
N900 are available for download, with the former supporting Atom-based machines and the latter supporting... well, we'll let you take a stab there. The API that's being released includes Qt 4.6, and while the current SDK is tailored for netbooks, the next version -- slated to hit devs in June -- will support "touch-based devices, such as handsets and tablets." We're also told that v1.1 will be outed in October, with the development tree already being open. We're certainly digging the layout shown here at a glance, but why not give that source link a visit and find out how it suits you in real life? We heard Snooki totally digs it, too.
[Thanks, Ernst]
posted May 26th 2010 6:33PM
Looks pretty funky (in a good way!)
@lookseehear Let's get it started, ameegos. =]
@lookseehear
Finally, an OS and a platform that makes me understand the benefits of cloud computing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub_cwsJnQps
@N900 Thank you N900.
@lookseehear
Well what you are looking at isn't MeeGo, but Moblin, which isn't new at all.
@lookseehear Hmm... but I like plasma-netbook. Now I can't choose. Oh, I'm so spoiled! :S
I thought engadget said it wasnt coming to n900?
@a puzzledkitten
That's what I thought too... I'm confused now. MeeGo is the latest Nokia OS right?
@Plazmic Flame nokia and intel i think
@Plazmic Flame It won't be coming to the N900 via Nokia. It is not official, but that doesn't mean that MeeGo's team stopped working on it.
@a puzzledkitten whatever it is, i hope to see it running on a video!
@Plazmic Flame
I got feeling this needs to be explained many times. ;)
THIS IS NOT NOKIAS MEEGO!! This is simply put Moblin 2.2 that's called MeeGo. Samething with Nokia, there will be Harmattan/Maemo 6 announced with device in 2H 2010(most probally Nokia World), again it will be called MeeGo. Both have Qt application framework.
Nokia itself is making Moblin/MeeGo image for N900 that will have dual boot option with Maemo 5. It will not be fully supported by Nokia.
@a puzzledkitten
seriously wtf? need some clarification here...
@a puzzledkitten Engadget does not know what they are talking about. (once again).*
It was clearly stated that MeeGo wont be commercially available through Nokia, meaning that they wont be supporting it in case the shit hits the fan. That said, it is going to be available through Nokia (as you can see it now) and Nokia is dedicating resources (engineers) to help the port of MeeGo to N900.
*It is part of their agenda to bad mouth Nokia. Fox News x Obama style.
@a puzzledkitten
being that MeeGo is Linux, it is an open OS. Like Linux, there are few "official" builds supported on retail hardware. It does still run, however, just without Nokia customer support help.
Linux Mint is very similar. Haven't seen it on many retail boxes either. So its not as bad as it seems. Saying it won't have official support and saying it won't work are two different things.
Sweet hope it works for me
nokia and intel i think
how is this different from moblin?
@Ben64 It's the new name for Moblin, merging aspects of Nokia's work on Maemo 6 (I think).
@Ben64
my thoughts exactly I see no trace of maemo
@ComradeArmona
That's not a surprise as this is pretty much moblin 2.2.
Nokia will release Harmattan/MeeGo later this year.
my download says 10 hours left... its only 800 mb, what gives??
@skyblaze
the 10 000 others who are downloading it, don't give much wiggleroom.
@skyblaze: Are you using Chrome to download it?
Mine said the same thing, then it just stopped downloading it (appeared as if it was downloaded, but only 200MB were). I switched to IE to download it and it downloaded it in 3 minutes. IE is more reliable with downloads, especially compared to "Chromium".
@Ruben
wow, you're right... IE did it in one try
what's up with THAT??
@Ruben oh no that's not possible, IE "just works" and Chrome does not?! =)
Is it possible to run it like a liveusb. Because I'be got a multiboot atm and dont want to screw it up
MeeGo + Archos 9 = ????
Anyone test that out yet?
@Luxury Guy - afaik MeeGo doesn't support the Poulsbo platform the Archos uses (no Linux support for the GMA500)...it's pretty much a no-go from what I've heard.
@NewL
The Archos 9 is a netbook Tablet PC with an Intel Atom and ships with Win7. I'm assuming the Poulsbo thing your talking about is the OS Archos used to use, before they switched to Android and Windows?
@Luxury Guy
Never mind, I just Google'd the Poulsbo platform so I understand what it is. However, it seems that the Linux on Poulsbo issue has been solved: http://www.internetling.com/2010/05/12/howto-intel-gma-500-poulsbo-on-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx/
I don't know if that means MeeGo will or will not run on the Archos 9 though.
@NewL
Well the Dell Mini v10 which I think uses the Poulsbo platform also works with MeeGo... so that means the Archos 9 should be OK, no?
@NewL poulsbo is what the Nokia Booklet runs on. Pretty odd Meego doesn't run on it.
Thomas Woods burrito status updates on my homepage?? wow im sold
note that this N900 version is just the "core" of it (it probably boots to a command line just like the first release a while a go)
First of all. What is MeeGo?
@Trickymaster Maemo, Intel Moblin, and a bottle of wine. ;)
Download is SLOWWWWWW.......
Anyone have a mirror lined up for this???
This is the qt packing but completely ux less current state of MeeGo. just a command line sofar, at least for n900. Since the n900 is the reference platform for MeeGo for mobile devices it will get it first. not commercially from nokia, but from meego.com.
@Sonnyjimba
Yes, it is supposed to run off a USB drive and then can be installed (like a livecd or liveflash of Linux).
I'm gonna give it a go in virtualbox just to see what it's like. I'd like to test drive the smartphone version just to see whether I should get a MeeGo device or just get the N8.
@bluesolace
The Handheld version (NOT called smartphone, since MeeGo isn't a smartphone OS but a computing platform) has no UI yet, and won't until this winter.
@christexaport
I think I clarified that down below. I was gonna try the netbook edition in virtualbox (didn't work of course) and I was just hoping to see the new UI for handhelds sometime soon.
Thanks for the info in any case.
Again, Meego for N900 is only command line based.
The Meego Handheld UI will be relased Q4
@Cynical Hippie
First Moblin based MeeGo for N900 will be command line based, but the next version will have Mobin/MeeGo UI(while there might be some small changes but we will see).
Mobiln/MeeGo will have it's own handhel UX like already shown on the videos.
Nokia will release Harmattan/MeeGo by it's own words in 2H, but most probally in Q4.
Should've been released as a torrent...
@KingFaisal94 Yeah, I just tried to download it and the download stopped at 100MB (out of 800MB.) I then tried it again and it stopped at 20MB.
I'm hoping LinuxTracker gets it soon.
Also, I hope it will work on my Acer Aspire 1410 (Core 2 Solo, GMA4500, intel wi-fi)
@mikedep333 I downloaded the non-chrome version (it has chromium) fine. It does startup and on my aspire 1410 (GMA4500) but there are severe graphics issues (apps like wi-fi selector, frozen-bubble, chromium flicker a lot.)
@mikedep333 How is it though, besides all of the buginess?
nothing new here, its Moblin.its cool if youre all into the "social" web like twitter or facebook, but limited, looks good though. ive ran the ubuntu version and most of the other versions of moblin .
@Cynical Hippie
If you were talking to me, I'm trying out the netbook edition. I was just hoping there was a way I could test drive the mobile version right now.
As for the download, mine screamed at 1MB/s pretty much throughout.