Congrats!   This is quite exciting - I'll check it out on my N900 as
soon as I figure out the chroot thing... ;-)

Of course, I'm very interested to see the UX's when they are available.

Warren

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Sousou, Imad <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everyone...
>
> 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.
>
> The images available today are: ARM-based Nokia N900, Intel Atom-based 
> netbooks, and Intel Atom-based handset (Moorestown).  These images can be 
> downloaded from http://meego.com/downloads
>
> The corresponding package (RPM) repositories are at repo.meego.com/MeeGo and 
> the git source repositories are available at http://meego.gitorious.org/.  
> Bugzilla is at http://bugzilla.meego.com/
>
> Please download, test, and provide feedback. The wiki on meego.com 
> (http://wiki.meego.com) and the MeeGo mailing list 
> (http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev) are excellent ways to share 
> information and ask questions.
>
> We'll post a proposed timeline soon which should answer your questions about 
> opening the user experience, applications, and application framework 
> repositories. For now, please take a look and let us know what you think.
> Imad Sousou
>
> Director of Intel's Open Source Technology Center
> Co-chair of the MeeGo TSG
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>



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