MeeGo comes to the Nokia N900. Kinda.

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by Clinton Jeff | on April 1st, 2010 | 1 comment

Big news today, as a developer release of MeeGo was let loose today.

But this is probably big news for developers only, since this is only a sort of Developer Preview.

A note of caution (and I cannot stress this enough). This release is only for the real experts and developers and is a very early Alpha Image (not of MeeGo itself, but of the developer preview), and is just the base of the MeeGo system. There’s only an Xterm and nothing much else, so dont expect any sort of fancy UI yet.

With that in mind, for an average person like me, there’s no real point to install it.

That all being said, straight from MeeGo.com :

Today is the culmination of a huge effort by the worldwide Nokia and Intel teams to share the MeeGo operating system code with the open source community. This is the latest step in the full merger of Maemo and Moblin, and we are happy to open the repositories and move the ongoing development work into the open – as we set out to do from the beginning.
What are we opening? The MeeGo distribution infrastructure and the operating system base from the Linux kernel to the OS infrastructure up to the middleware layer. The MeeGo architecture is based on a common core across the different usage models, such as netbooks, handheld, in-vehicle, and connected TV. The MeeGo common core includes the various key subsystems including the core operating system libraries, the comms and telephony services, internet and social networking services, visual services, media services, data management, device services, and personal services. More on this will be described on meego.com over the next few days.
The downloaded images will boot from a USB stick or directly flashed on the device from your Linux PC, but since the MeeGo User Experiences for the usage models mentioned previously are not yet included in today’s MeeGo core, these images will boot into terminal.
After Day 1, the rest will follow soon – in the next few days, we will post the next steps leading to the first release of MeeGo in May.

So, if you’re still interested Here’s where you can get MeeGo :

MeeGo Repositories and Images
The available MeeGo repositories now include the operating system base from the Linux kernel to the OS infrastructure up to the middleware layer. The downloadable images available now will boot from a CD or from a USB stick, but since the MeeGo User Experiences for the usage models are not yet included in today’s MeeGo core, these images will boot into terminal.
ARM-based Nokia N900

If you’re really really wanting to give this a go, the crew over at Maemo Arena have posted instructions on how to try MeeGo on the N900.

I guess this means, we just might see a sort of MeeGo OS running on the N900. Eventually, some day ?

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