Nokia N900 Will Get a Taste of MeeGo Soon (infoSyncWorld)

The Nokia N900 will be the first device to get a taste of MeeGo when the genuine merger of Moblin and Maemo takes place later this month.

Maemo Weekly News for Monday, 22 Feb 2010

Front Page Maemo and Moblin "merge" to form MeeGo On Monday, just after the release of our third issue, Nokia and Intel held a joint press conference to announce that the roadmaps of Moblin and Maemo were converging. The resulting operating system, MeeGo, would target phones, tablets and netbooks and be held under the stewardship of the Linux Foundation as a fully open source OS: We are taking the best pieces from these two open source projects and are creating the MeeGo software platform

Thoughts about MeeGo

In a country with freedom of speech, one has to say something to every happening, right? So here is my try: Basically the merge of Maemo and Moblin is logical and consequent as Nokia and Intel already collaborated with ofono and merging helps joining the efforts. This is quite necessary as neither Maemo nor Moblin could survive on their own in a world where everybody else uses Android and soon will start using Chrome OS.

We are… MeeGo?

Those of us who live in the West generally look a little mystified and uneasy when there’s talk of arranged marriages. Living in a society where at best people choose their own spouse and at worst marry for the sake of the children, we somehow feel superior. But it isn’t quite that simple

Nokia, Intel team up for phone software (Express India)

Nokia, the world’s biggest maker of mobile handsets, will merge its Linux Maemo software platform, used in its flagship N900 phone, with Intel’s Moblin, which is also based on Linux open-sourced software.

Meego - RPM vs DEB debate.

Hopefully I’ve helped settle a few minds with this post to meego-dev. After a lot (and boy, do I mean a lot) of reading, writing, and discussing the RPMvsDEB scenario ad nauseum, and a more recent discussion, I thought it might be good to put some positive energy into the discussion, so here goes.

Intel, Nokia Partner On Mobile OS (InformationWeek)

The open source MeeGo platform is a combine of Intel’s Moblin and Nokia’s Linux Maemo.

Nokia, Intel team up in phone software race (MalaysiaNews.net)

Now Nokia, the world’s biggest maker of mobile handsets, will merge its Linux Maemo software platform, used in its flagship N900 phone, with Intel’s Moblin, which is also based on Linux open-sourced ….

Intel and Nokia’s MeeGo Joins a Brewing OS War (PC World via Yahoo! News)

Nokia and Intel have become allies in a new clash of the operating systems with the joint creation of MeeGo. MeeGo is an operating system that blurs the line between a robust mobile phone OS and a lightweight netbook OS.

Intel, Nokia Mate Moblin And Maemo Platforms, Spawn MeeGo OS (Gizmodo Australia)

Nokia and Intel have joined up to marry their Moblin and Maemo platforms, creating the MeeGo spawn which will be seen on devices by the ends of the year. Another operating system? (more…)

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