Nokia and Intel Announce MeeGo, Death of Maemo and Moblin
For everyone using an N900, especially listen up. Nokia and Intel have co-announced that they will be combining Maemo (Nokia) and Moblin (Intel), their two respective open source OS’s, into one OS called MeeGo.
These two giants have decided that they can take the best of both OS’s and combine them to make a much better OS over the coming year. What does this mean? We’ll were not sure either as the announcement was pretty vague on details, but what we can probably assume is that this means no more Maemo or Moblin coming out (and no Maemo 6, I think it might be safe to assume).
Here is the official blog announcement on the Meego.com website (a work in progress FYI):
Submitted by Imad Sousou on 15 February, 2010 – 02:00Hi Everyone
I’m sure you’ve heard the news: Moblin and maemo are merging! We are taking the best pieces from these two open source projects and are creating the MeeGo software platform. Both teams have worked for a long time to support the needs of the mobile user experience – and MeeGo will make this even better. We want it to be fun, focused, flexible, technically challenging and ultimately, something that can change the world.
We all use mobile devices every day. The power and capability of handhelds has reached astounding levels – netbooks have been a runaway success – and connected TVs, tablets, in-vehicle infotainment, and media phones are fast growing new markets for devices with unheard of performance. Our goal is to develop the best software to go with those devices. The teams behind maemo and Moblin have plenty of experience and even more ideas on how to make things better – and together we will create something special.
The MeeGo website is still evolving – you’ll run into a few “coming soon” pages as we pull all the content together and get things ready for our first project release in the second quarter. But there’s already a lot to see – and a community to join! Please take a look – and come back often as we approach that first release.
We really want to hear from you. Be in on IRC, on our developer mailing list, or through bugzilla. MeeGo is an open project and it will be successful through its developer community. It’s my personal goal to make sure that we can all together be successful. And have fun.
Imad Sousou
Director of Intel’s Open Source Technology Center
(and now also co-chair of the MeeGo steering group)
What does it all mean, Bassle?
So what does this mean for everyone who has a N900? i just bought an N900 so will it benefit the N900 users or not?