This week Nokia announced that MeeGo would not officially be supported on the N900. On first appearance this would seem to be a bad thing. But I managed to down load the MeeGo v1.0 for Netbooks and burned it to a DVD. I attempted to run this with VirtualBox and then Parallels and neither would finish the load. But my old work Dell Pentium 4 worked just fine booting from the CD.
So I went exploring, and overall it was a bit of fun, and most 5 year olds will be comfortable in a few minutes with it. But use it on an adult machine, a netbook to get work done on? Not a chance, it’s like a world-of-wonder 5-10 year old grade toy.
And guess what, it’s a GREAT thing that this, this, what ever MeeGo is, is not going to be forced ‘officially’ on the N900 users of the world. Compared to Maemo 5…what am I saying, it’s not comparable, if you are listening…
Nokia!
Keep Maemo, and FUCK MeeGo!!!
UPDATE: Someone else doesn’t like Netbook MeeGo a NoGo
NOTE: and the BS continues, with Intel killing off MeeGo for Tizen to further delay or destroy Open Source for mobile devices.
indeed…
great post, you just forgot to say why.
The Why is this, Maemo 5 was ‘good enough’ for Nokia it’s like changing horses in the middle of your stream. And all they got was wet, all forward progress replacing Symbian stopped, and they come off looking like children trying to pick a favorite candy. Lose, Lose and Lose again.
Agreed!!!