MeeGo NoMore; New ‘Tizen’ led by Intel and Samsung.
Now there’s news that MeeGo will now be called….TIZEN. ??
Like MeeGo, Tizen is intended for a whole host of devices. The main leaders stearing this comrises of Intel and Samsung.
Tizen will support multiple device categories, such as smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, netbooks, and in-vehicle infotainment devices. The Linux Foundation will host the project, where Tizen development will be completely open and led by a technical steering team composed of Intel and Samsung.
App wise, it will all be HTML5. All the work making MeeGo Qt will be flushed away.
Source: tizen.org
Cheers Subramanyam for the tip.
Other Tizen News:
- http://thisismynext.com/2011/09/28/meego-dead-meet-tizen-open-source-os-based-linux/
- http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/28/meego-to-be-folded-into-linux-based-tizen-os-slated-to-arrive-i/
Ah what a farce. That’s what you get when you stall something as incredible as Maemo, jump in bed with Intel who of course has delivered all their mobile chips on time right? Oh wait.
At least Intel is still serious about not fully going Android, wanting to direct themselves away from that and steer their own course. Not that they have much choice as ARM is dominating there.
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MeeGo dead!?!
Finally! I’m saying goodbye to Nokia and smartphones! I’ll buy cheap dumbphones now! Every smartphone OS is built around social networking etc. I don’t need that shit!
MeeGo and Symbian are dead, and I’ll never buy an Android phone, maybe iOS(iPod touch) but not an iPhone. So I say goodbye to the smartphone world, until I find something different(even Symbian looks Androidish now) that I use any way I want. Like I can make custom firmware for my Nokia 5233 and do anything with it, and I guess Windows Phone, iOS and Android do not allow that. So there is no way to make my phone’s own unique personality like my current phone has got.
You can still buy the N9.
Yup! But I wanted to buy a good device next year, and N9 at that time will become old as Nvidia will bring its quad core Kal-El to the market whereas N9 will be stuck on single core. It’ll be like buying a Nokia N97 today.
But now I am fed up of smartphones! Everything is same… the build, hardware, features etc. In old times it felt good to fight the Symbian-Android war in the forums, but now nothing is left. Now smartphones are like computers. Only the power matters! And the operating systems are owned by a few big companies. Now when we buy a phone, we buy its hardware, not the OS. We only get the lisense to use the OS the way the company tells us. The OS is no longer ours.
N9 is still great….
Specs are vastly overrated rated & grossly oversimplify things.
Particularly for the core components like, CPU/GPU/RAM etc..
If the software’s stack’s excellent, bottom to top…
You can have a device that performs as well as (sometimes better) the beefiest device, for 99% of RW scenarios.
F U C K This!!!!!
N9 is not Meego.
N9 IS NOT MEEGO.
N9 is NOT MEEGO.
I can’t say it enough.
N9 is simply Maemo 6 with QT.
Thats why Nokia didnt label N9 as Meego. Only the mis-informed masses are calling N9 OS Meego.
As a matter of fact, N9 OS is called Swipe.
Thanks.
Jay, please point this out to everyone.
N9 is MeeGo, Maemo 6 never happened, it was relabeled as MeeGo. MeeGo is what happened when Maemo and Moblin slept together.
And N9 OS is MeeGo Harmattan, NOT Swipe. Swipe is just an OS interaction gesture.
Sorry. N9 is Debian-based and uses apt-get package management. MeeGo is RedHat-based and uses .rpm package management. The only thing MeeGo about the N9 is Qt (Maemo5 was Gtk) and some other mandatory libraries.
But heck, Intel has just thrown away Qt as a first-party library for MeeGo’s successor, so why are we arguing? If you had fun developping for MeeGo with Qt, N9 is the only remaining way. Intel just deprecated your investment in Qt for Tizen.
While you’re right, so is erzhik – Maemo 6 never happened. Harmattan did, but as MeeGo 1.2
Ugh so? Semantics…
Harmattan was always to be the codename for Maemo6, even before the MeeGo thingy was announced
It “is” basically Maemo 6 with a MeeGo compatibility layer
Ignorance must be a bliss for you my friend. The OS is called Swipe!? .. haha
Nokia does call it MeeGo, you’re wrong about that. It’s not called Swipe.
So I should stop dreaming for MeeGo at all? I would go with Maemo too for the power of it. And would more focus on to fixing Symbian 3s. :s
As a day to day user of the KDE desktop one of the key things that made nokia/meego interesting was its use and promotion of QT, if Tizen doesn’t use that then it lessens my interest in exactly the same way as Nokia downplaying “linux” in its QT marketed handsets.
I also doubt the capability of Tizen to be anything more than still-born if it doesn’t use a decent mobile focussed UI toolkit like Qt.
I have seen too many of these mobile linux partnerships come and go to no real effect, at the end of the day nokia is on its fifth generation of mobile linux products, that is at least a real track record to place some trust in.
I’m all for meego being folded into Tizen, and wishing it every success, but without nokia and Qt i remain sceptical, and quite happy to continue with an N9 for the next couple of years.
I’m not a Qt or Linux geek but knowing just a bit about Linux is that anything is possible with it
people who is complaining about “not being built around Qt”…. Remember its Linux!!! and it shouldn’t be to hard to import all the Qt libraries & etc…. to make Qt stuff to work with it
Fug this Tizen.
Qt is superior. Qt is the platform.
“Qt is the platform”
Umm, I wish that were true, but for whatever reason no one has made a great success of creating mobile devices offering the Qt platform. Maybe the Android port will take off.
I don’t understand it personally. The tech’s great. Just wish someone in a commercial position could see that.
You’d figure with all the combinations of names (Maemo, Moblin, MeeGo, Limo) that they’d come up with a better name. Something like “Mofo” or perhaps a slight variant on what they picked to create the image of excitement, with “Jizen”.
Yeah, they keep coming up with horrible names.
And people here were treating MeeGo as the next revolution in mobile. Sure it looks great, but people, THERE IS NO SUPPORT FOR MEEGO. As has been stated SEVERAL times, development has been painfully slow. Both Intel and Nokia move too damn slow in this competitive mobile tech space.
Timing might of this is clearly Intel way to pay back to Nokia. But I am pretty sure this wont effect on N9 sales as it’s a unique phone and people buy it to have something NEW.
Not sure if Nokia should see end of their contract with Intel and Rename the OS and cut off MeeGo word from every official document.
Nokia only did make this out as “meego” phone because deal with Intel.
Anyone who buy this phone will be just fine next 2-5 years depends how often changes phones in first place. Symbian Qt will be big reason to make all the apps and services also for N9.
I honestly don’t see this new OS/partnership going anywhere. Intel doesn’t know software and samsung only knows how to copy.
DS, i’m curious, have you heard of any bad blood between nokia and intel before nokia called it quits on meego? just curious if nokia felt they were doing all the software work and getting nothing from intel.
do you think nokia would continue using maemo linux kernel and just a Qt UI like the N9?
No idea about how things went with Intel and Nokia before Elop.
I bet that Intel did only focus to make MeeGo devices that runs with their CPU and we all know there is nothing for phones.
Nokia fed up with their lack of interest to make OS to run with ARM and reason why the MeeGo actually did never move anywhere and Nokia had to move to work with Maemo6 to actually real device in to market.
There is no facts or info about this. Just my opinion and toughs what has happen behind the doors.
Nokia made correct choice to jump off and keep their own maemo code and UI design and patents for them and not past it out for intel and others to take.
Now Nokia can use that in future windows phones and future Linux based products they might do in future.
tought linux philosophy is freeware and open source.–>if tizen takes some code from maemo,will they be sued by nokia for patents as it is the new competition is on patents and not innovayion?
hearing that ms is getting more cash from royalties compared to winphones sales!
when will we get the possibility to put differrent os on given hardware(like dual boot on pc)?
See epic TMO thread, & a post recently by Cue.
Dsmobile’s a bit “all over the shop” in his explanation.
Nice effort though…..
http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_promises_continued_software_support_for_n9-news-3194.php
This is the time nokia should return their platform to MAEMO.
Harmattan (N9) is the proof what MAEM0 capable to do.
With Qt of course
damn Sammy did it again, why? why? Nokia why?
how many more times do i andd other have to say this
NOKIA N9 DOES NOT USE MEEGO
IT USES SWIPE (Maemo 6 with QT Swipe ui)
And how many times are you going to be wrong? N9 uses MEEGO! End of story, get your facts straight. Maemo 6 and Moblin is what created MeeGo. Swipe is a UI gesture, NOT OS.
No i think John is technically correct. Nokia had the Maemo changes already in the hopper before Nokia/Intel released anything together. Because Nokia had started to incorp some elements of the MeeGo concept in Maemo, they asked for permission to use the MeeGo name but specified the variance with the Harmattan UI label.
Perhaps part of the original agreement with Intel was not to market under the term “Maemo” anymore.
No, he’s not technically correct at all. The OS isn’t called Swipe.
N9 is nothing but Meamo6 restart and added support for MeeGo platform to keep N9 compatible and that has no meaning any more.
Only thing that matters is that Symbian and N9 are compatible with Qt apps and you have large ecosystem there.
Real MeeGo was for Intel hardware that never got ready. Intel did screw that up with lack of interest to support ARM.
Intel really believes that ATOM can be an ARM competitor, but it’s taking then forever to prove it (power consumption, heat, etc).
No, N9 doesn’t use MeeGo, exactly. I wrote a fairly long post about this back in June:
http://chipotle.tumblr.com/post/6863419884/why-the-n9-and-when-meego-is-not-meego
…but the takeaway point in this case is noting that the MeeGo developer conference held a month before that in the SF Bay Area had a panel on the N9′s OS, described as: “Nokia is working on the release of a product this year expected to raise the interest of the MeeGo community. It comes with an OS codenamed Harmattan that is API compatible with MeeGo 1.2. Let’s have a look at the peculiarities of Harmattan, and how to overcome them for the benefit of the MeeGo community.”
While I don’t see any indication anywhere that the OS was ever called “Swipe,” MeeGo developers were being told fairly definitively that what was on the N9 was *not* MeeGo. From all appearances it was, in fact, a modified version of what would have been Maemo 6. (Internally at Nokia I only heard it referred to as Harmattan.)
what a shame…. stupid Nokia
Nokia started a new Linux os for cheap phones!!!
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203405504576599011587667984.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Goodbye intel,go and make your Atom.I don’t care,and I thick Tizen will be the second meego
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