Thursday, April 1, 2010

Day 1, MeeGo

MeeGo Day 1
Yesterday 31st of March was Day 1 for MeeGo. One can download from MeeGo repositories 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.
Intel Atom-based netbooks
ARM-based Nokia N900
Intel Atom-based handset (Moorestown)

These days the market of mobile phones is heavily overcrowded. Among the Android there is also Samsung's Bada, and also Meego. Meego is a product of merging the two linux based projects, one headed by Intel - Moblin  and another one headed by Nokia - Maemo. Maemo has completely different ideology than Android which has basically managed UI based on dalvik virtual machine. Meego on another hand is based on native code and the UI layer is based on Qt . In this way Meego is running native apps.
There is a trend that vendors like Nokia and Samsung are trying to make, different platforms, they have similar for developers. This is the case with Nokia Qt which is available on Symbian as well as on Meego. Qt should be available on both platforms and the developers need lower level Symbian specific API's only for very specific activities.
Samsung's Bada on the other hand claims that the operating system kernel could be based on Linux or some real time OS. While real time OS is suitable for the lower end devices, Linux will be installed on higher end. Fortunately this diffenrece is not visible to the application developers as they are working against the SDK.
Let me wish all the luck and success to the people behind this project!
Enjoy the mobility and all the new possibilities created by it!!!

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