MeeGo, the open source, Linux-based operating system that combines Intel’s Moblin project and Nokia’s Maemo smartphone OS, is now available for netbooks and soon the Nokia N900.
The MeeGo group says Version 1.0 of MeeGo supports the N900 in addition to a number of Intel Atom based netbooks.
Nokia said yesterday on its official blog that it will not be offering a full scale commercial upgrade yet.
Don’t start downloading a copy of MeeGo right now though unless you’re a developer. Version 1.0 of MeeGo, as Imad Sousou, director of Intel’s Open Source Technology Center, explained, “provides developers with a stable core foundation for application development and a rich user experience for Netbooks.
The MeeGo Netbook user experience is the first to appear, with the development of the MeeGo Handset user experience moving to the open in June.
According to Lilliputing, the biggest problem with MeeGo at this point is that there simply aren’t a lot of third party apps designed to work with the OS yet, at the MeeGo Garage.
MeeGo hopes to be in handhelds, tablets and nettops, although the Android SDK (software development kit) has first mover advantage & backing from Google.
Proprietary Windows and Apple operating systems aren’t free and can’t run on both ARM and Intel devices. MeeGo can.
Want a platform for the world stage? Linux-based MeeGo and Android are pretty good bets. Nokia devices dominate among the 5 billion mobile phone users.
Open Source Bridge is a new conference for developers working with open source technologies and for people interested in learning the open source way. It runs from Tuesday, June 1 to Friday, June 4, 2010, in Portland, Oregon.
It’s entirely volunteer-run, by developers, for developers, with five tracks connecting people across projects, languages, and backgrounds.
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