MeeGo is the new Linux-based operating system borne out of the ashes merger of Moblin and Maemo. While the two groups merged just last month, the folks at SlashPhone are reporting that the first version of MeeGo will be available by the end of March.
The new build will be compatible with Intel Atom-powered netbooks as well as the Nokia N900 internet tablet which currently runs Maemo.
It’s not entirely clear what the new OS will look like, as a lot of the project is “still under discussion.” But it doesn’t sound like it will be long before talk turns to action.
Are you looking forward to seeing MeeGo? Or are you happy with your current netbook operating system choices?
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An Intel guy was at SCaLE 8x this year talking about MeeGo. From what he was saying, a lot of the partnership is still conceptual. He was running Moblin 2.x on his notebook that was displaying the presentation and I like the interface, but he wasn’t at liberty to discuss much on whether it will use one interface over the other. They had some mock-ups of what it will look like and it retains the Moblin style but they wouldn’t confirm if that was how it would stay. They also had very little info regarding security, applications, or features. I… Read more »
I was playing with Moblin right up until this announcement, and generally I liked what Intel was trying to do. I’d never played with Maemo. I can say for a fact that the names of all of these projects are horrid, and if they go to market aren’t going to do well. I have yet to ask anyone if they’d be willing to use a computer drive by MeeGo and get a positive response, although I did get one person who thought I was talking about the Amiga and got very excited. I referred him to the open source Amiga… Read more »
Yes, I am looking forward to the release. I like having dual boot machines, it’s like getting two computers in place of one. On XP my ASUS EEE 1001AH is okay, it stutters sometimes, takes a while to boot and sometimes locks up. But okay is the right word for it. Ubuntu is better than XP, codecs available for quicktime and flash, quicker boot than XP. Opensuse looked really good but the restore session feature meant that at one one point it could not get past the boot up. But purpose-built OSs such as Moblin boot much faster, the machine… Read more »
Hello,
flash should be installed out of the box, regarding codecs, you should install vlc from our app center.
in any case make sure you have the most recent version of jolicloud, you can update in my jolicloud or go to terminal and type this
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
happy joliclouding
I used Moblin 2.1 for a couple of weeks. It was fast and had some interesting features such as previous screens. The social networking wasted 33% of the screen. Out of the box, it supported very few netbook features. I went to Ubuntu and Ubuntu Netbook Remix, which had everything working right away. I may now change to Linux4One to get even more specific machine support. I won’t be going back to ANY version of Windows.
I have an Eee PC 900a netbook which has a 4GB SSD and it will be interesting to see what they come up with. I heard good things about moblin on the atom, but loading it into my netbook via flashdrive failed so I hope they fix that problem (most netbooks don’t have an optical drive so flashdrive or SD card are the only install options). I’m using easypeasy right now and its much better than the bloated OEM Xandros and seems to be more compatible with my mouse pad than regular ubuntu. I could never fix the jumpy mouse… Read more »