A eulogy for Maemo and MeeGo • Hacker News Board

Re: A eulogy for Maemo and MeeGo

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Post by john61 » Thu, Oct 27, 2011, 2:41 PM UTC

runn1ng wrote: post #15

john61 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Meego is just a marketing Buzzword. The N9 OS ist not a true MeeGo device anyway. Because MeeGo should be Moblin + Maemo. This Intel+Nokia adventure was a disaster. But what the N9 actually is, is Maemo + Qt. And Maemo is a mobile Debian. Nokia only said that they discontinue MeeGo. They did not say the discontinue the technolgoy behind it. They still invest und contribute a lot to Qt. And they say they are not porti…

Nokia spun off Qt as a separate project, "truly open source", and stopped owning it directly. To me, it slightly looks like they want to stop investing in Qt, too. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAwN... http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/10/21/the-qt-project-is-live/

This does not look like a discontinued project:

https://gitorious.org/~qtbynokia

Re: A eulogy for Maemo and MeeGo

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Post by corford » Thu, Oct 27, 2011, 3:28 PM UTC

coob wrote: post #13

corford wrote: post #3

It's not often that I get worked up over failed platforms but Nokia's botching of Maemo really makes me angry. The N9 shows they had a viable, potentially world beating platform. Not only have they thrown it under a bus but, with its passing, so goes any hope of a true linux based smartphone (and accompanying ecosystem) ever achieving mass market exposure. It's tragic.

Android is Linux based.

As tincholio says, I added the word true on purpose. When you use a real linux stack, things like this are possible:

http://wiki.maemo.org/Easy_Debian

http://temporaryland.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/openoffice-org...

Re: A eulogy for Maemo and MeeGo

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Post by zokier » Thu, Oct 27, 2011, 3:40 PM UTC

snotrockets wrote: post #4

If there is anything Maemo was to be shot for, is that it continued to support the horrible disaster which is the X Windows System. That horrible, horrible excuse for a graphic system should be taken out and shot, the sooner the better (and no, I'm not bitter. Just a little bit tangy, perhaps.)

I think there were plans to port Meego onto Wayland.

Re: A eulogy for Maemo and MeeGo

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Post by juiceandjuice » Thu, Oct 27, 2011, 4:06 PM UTC

Nice Maemorial.

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Re: A eulogy for Maemo and MeeGo

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Post by aidenn0 » Thu, Oct 27, 2011, 4:25 PM UTC

I think that MeeGo may have some advantages over android, but I don't see how X is one of them. X is the single most broken piece of technology on any *nix box today.

Re: A eulogy for Maemo and MeeGo

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Post by mbq » Thu, Oct 27, 2011, 4:59 PM UTC

runn1ng wrote: post #17

mbq wrote: post #7

This sadly also applies to Windows; Win Mobile was just Windows-on-the-phone, Win Phone is a crazy Silverlight slideshow. Thank you, Apple, for showing the market that dumb smartphones sell better than the real ones )-:

How is iPhone a dumb smartphone? The fact that it's not open (in any mean) doesn't mean it's dumb.

Does it have a shell? Can you write, compile and run a C app on it? Connect to OpenVPN without breaking warranty? Open few app windows side by side? Run another OS? I did all this on my windows mobile (very closed OS) devices, maemo would also have no problem with that.