MeeGo
Encyclopedia
MeeGo is a Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

-based open source
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 mobile operating system
Mobile operating system
A mobile operating system, also known as a mobile OS, mobile software platform or a handheld operating system, is the operating system that controls a mobile device or information appliance—similar in principle to an operating system such as Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux distributions that controls a...

 project. Primarily targeted at mobile devices and information appliance
Information appliance
In general terms, an information appliance or information device is any machine or device that is usable for the purposes of computing, telecommunicating, reproducing, and presenting encoded information in myriad forms and applications....

s in the consumer electronics
Consumer electronics
Consumer electronics are electronic equipment intended for everyday use, most often in entertainment, communications and office productivity. Radio broadcasting in the early 20th century brought the first major consumer product, the broadcast receiver...

 market, MeeGo is designed to act as an operating system for hardware platforms such as netbook
Netbook
Netbooks are a category of small, lightweight, legacy-free, and inexpensive laptop computers.At their inception in late 2007 as smaller notebooks optimized for low weight and low cost — netbooks omitted certain features , featured smaller screens and keyboards, and offered reduced computing...

s, entry-level desktops, nettop
Nettop
Nettop may refer to:*Nettop, a type of computer*NetTop, a NSA project...

s, tablet computer
Tablet computer
A tablet computer, or simply tablet, is a complete mobile computer, larger than a mobile phone or personal digital assistant, integrated into a flat touch screen and primarily operated by touching the screen...

s, mobile computing
Mobile computing
Mobile computing is a form of human–computer interaction by which a computer is expected to be transported during normal usage. Mobile computing has three aspects: mobile communication, mobile hardware, and mobile software...

 and communications devices, in-vehicle infotainment devices, SmartTV / ConnectedTV
SmartTV
SmartTV A/S is a Danish company providing interactive TV, IPTV, On Demand and NPVR services....

, IPTV
IPTV
Internet Protocol television is a system through which television services are delivered using the Internet protocol suite over a packet-switched network such as the Internet, instead of being delivered through traditional terrestrial, satellite signal, and cable television formats.IPTV services...

-boxes, smart phones, and other embedded system
Embedded system
An embedded system is a computer system designed for specific control functions within a larger system. often with real-time computing constraints. It is embedded as part of a complete device often including hardware and mechanical parts. By contrast, a general-purpose computer, such as a personal...

s. MeeGo is currently hosted by the Linux Foundation
Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a non-profit technology consortium chartered to foster the growth of Linux.Founded in 2007 by the merger of the Open Source Development Labs and the Free Standards Group , the Linux Foundation sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading...

.

History

It was first announced at Mobile World Congress
Mobile World Congress
The GSMA Mobile World Congress is the combination of the world's largest exhibition for the mobile industry and a conference featuring prominent Chief Executives representing mobile operators, device manufacturers, technology providers, vendors and content owners from across the world...

 in February 2010 by Intel and Nokia
Nokia
Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki...

 in a joint press conference. The stated aim is to merge the efforts of Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo
Maemo
Maemo is a software platform developed by the Maemo community for smartphones and Internet tablets. It is based on the Debian Linux distribution, but has no relation to it...

 former projects into one new common project. According to Intel, MeeGo was developed because Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

 did not offer comprehensive Windows 7 support for the Atom processor
Intel Atom
Intel Atom is the brand name for a line of ultra-low-voltage x86 and x86-64 CPUs from Intel, designed in 45 nm CMOS and used mainly in netbooks, nettops, embedded application ranging from health care to advanced robotics and Mobile Internet devices...

. Aminocom and Novell
Novell
Novell, Inc. is a multinational software and services company. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Attachmate Group. It specializes in network operating systems, such as Novell NetWare; systems management solutions, such as Novell ZENworks; and collaboration solutions, such as Novell Groupwise...

 also play a large part in the MeeGo effort, working with the Linux Foundation on their build infrastructure and official MeeGo products. Amino was responsible for extending MeeGo to TV devices, while Novell is increasingly introducing technology that was originally developed for openSUSE
OpenSUSE
openSUSE is a general purpose operating system built on top of the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported openSUSE Project and sponsored by SUSE...

, (including Open Build Service, ZYpp
ZYpp
ZYpp is a package management engine that powers Linux applications like YaST, Zypper and the openSUSE/SUSE Linux Enterprise implementation of PackageKit. Unlike other common package managers, it provides a powerful satisfiability solver to compute package dependencies and a convenient package...

 for package management, and other system management tools). In November 2010, AMD
Advanced Micro Devices
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. or AMD is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Sunnyvale, California, that develops computer processors and related technologies for commercial and consumer markets...

 also joined the alliance of companies that are actively developing MeeGo.

Harmattan, originally slated to become Maemo 6, is now considered to be a MeeGo instance (though not a MeeGo product), and Nokia is giving up the Maemo branding for Harmattan and beyond (Maemo 5, aka Fremantle, and previous versions will still be referred to as Maemo).

On 27 September 2011 it was announced by Intel employee Imad Sousou that in collaboration with Samsung
Samsung
The Samsung Group is a South Korean multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea...

 MeeGo will be replaced by Tizen
Tizen
Tizen is a free and open source Linux-based mobile operating system project sponsored by the non-profit technology consortia Linux Foundation and LiMo Foundation. Tizen was born out of MeeGo, which was itself a combination of the mobile operating systems Moblin, created by Intel, and Maemo, created...

 during 2012. Nokia in turn is said to develop its own successor Meltemi
Meltemi (operating system)
Meltemi has been reported by a number of sources to be a Linux-based smartphone operating system designed by Nokia for low-cost mobile devices, to replace the Nokia Series 40 feature phone operating system. It was announced in 2011, after Nokia's adoption of Windows Phone to replace Symbian, and...

 targeted at feature phone
Feature phone
A feature phone is a mobile phone that, like smartphones, combines the functions of a personal digital assistant and a mobile phone.Today's models typically also serve as portable media players and camera phones with touchscreen, GPS navigation, Wi-Fi and mobile broadband access.Feature phones is...

s.

Community developers from the Mer project however plan to continue MeeGo without Intel and Nokia. So far it is not clear whether they will be allowed to continue to use the MeeGo trademark.

Overview

MeeGo is intended to run on a variety of hardware platforms including handhelds, in-car devices, netbooks and televisions. All platforms share the MeeGo core, with different “User Experience”
Graphical user interface
In computing, a graphical user interface is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices with images rather than text commands. GUIs can be used in computers, hand-held devices such as MP3 players, portable media players or gaming devices, household appliances and...

 (“UX”) layers for each type of device.

System requirements

MeeGo provides support for both ARM
ARM architecture
ARM is a 32-bit reduced instruction set computer instruction set architecture developed by ARM Holdings. It was named the Advanced RISC Machine, and before that, the Acorn RISC Machine. The ARM architecture is the most widely used 32-bit ISA in numbers produced...

 and Intel x86 processors with SSSE3
SSSE3
Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 is a SIMD instruction set created by Intel and is the fourth iteration of the SSE technology.- History :...

 enabled and uses btrfs
Btrfs
Btrfs is a GPL-licensed copy-on-write file system for Linux.Development began at Oracle Corporation in 2007....

 as the default file system
File system
A file system is a means to organize data expected to be retained after a program terminates by providing procedures to store, retrieve and update data, as well as manage the available space on the device which contain it. A file system organizes data in an efficient manner and is tuned to the...

.

User interfaces

Within the MeeGo project there are several graphical user interface
Graphical user interface
In computing, a graphical user interface is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices with images rather than text commands. GUIs can be used in computers, hand-held devices such as MP3 players, portable media players or gaming devices, household appliances and...

s – internally called User Experiences (“UX”).

Netbook

The Netbook UX is a continuation of the Moblin interface. It is written using the Clutter-based Mx toolkit, and uses the Mutter window manager
Mutter (window manager)
Mutter is the window manager for which GNOME Shell is a plugin in GNOME 3, replacing Metacity....

.

MeeGo’s netbook version uses several Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

 applications in the background, such as Evolution (Email, calendar), Empathy
Empathy (software)
Empathy is an instant messaging client which supports text, voice, video, file transfers, and inter-application communication over various IM protocols....

 (instant messaging), Gwibber
Gwibber
Gwibber is a microblogging client for the GNOME desktop environment. It was created by Ryan Paul, a writer for Ars Technica. Gwibber is distributed under the GNU GPL license.It supports Linux and is written in Python using the PyGTK library...

 (microblogging), Chromium
Chromium (web browser)
Chromium is the open source web browser project from which Google Chrome draws its source code. The project's hourly Chromium snapshots appear essentially similar to the latest builds of Google Chrome aside from the omission of certain Google additions, most noticeable among them: Google's...

 (web browser), and Banshee (multimedia player), all integrated into the graphical user interface.

Handset

The Handset UX is based on Qt, but GTK+
GTK+
GTK+ is a cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL, allowing both free and proprietary software to use it. It is one of the most popular toolkits for the X Window System, along with Qt.The name GTK+ originates from GTK;...

 and Clutter will be included to provide compatibility for Moblin applications. To support the hundreds of Hildon
Hildon
Hildon is an application framework originally developed for mobile devices running the Linux operating system. It was developed by Nokia for the Maemo operating system and is now a part of GNOME. It focuses on providing a finger-friendly interface...

-based Maemo applications, users have to install the Hildon
Hildon
Hildon is an application framework originally developed for mobile devices running the Linux operating system. It was developed by Nokia for the Maemo operating system and is now a part of GNOME. It focuses on providing a finger-friendly interface...

 library ported by the maemo.org community. Depending on the device, applications will be provided from either the Intel AppUp or the Nokia Ovi
Ovi (Nokia)
Ovi by Nokia is the brand for Nokia's Internet services. The Ovi services can be used from a mobile device, computer or via the web. Nokia focuses on five key service areas: Games, Maps, Media, Messaging and Music. Nokia's aim with Ovi is to include third party developers, such as operators and...

 digital software distribution systems.

The MeeGo Handset UX’s “Day 1” prerelease was on June 30, 2010. The preview was initially available for the Aava Mobile Intel Moorestown platform, and a ‘kickstart’ file provided for developers to build an image for the Nokia N900
Nokia N900
The Nokia N900 is a smartphone made by Nokia. It supersedes the Nokia N810. Its default operating system, Maemo 5, is a Linux-based OS originally developed for the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. It is the first Nokia device based upon the Texas Instruments OMAP3 microprocessor with the ARM Cortex-A8...

.

Tablet

Intel demonstrated the Tablet UX on a Moorestown-based tablet PC
Tablet computer
A tablet computer, or simply tablet, is a complete mobile computer, larger than a mobile phone or personal digital assistant, integrated into a flat touch screen and primarily operated by touching the screen...

 at COMPUTEX Taipei
Computex Taipei
COMPUTEX Taipei, or Taipei International Information Technology Show , is a computer expo held annually in Taipei, Taiwan. Since the early 2000s, it has become one of the largest computer and technology fairs in the world.-Development:...

 in early June 2010.

Since then, some information appeared on MeeGo website indicating there will be a Tablet UX part of the MeeGo project, but it is not known if this UX will be the one demonstrated by Intel. This Tablet UX will be fully open source like the rest of the MeeGo project and will be coded with Qt and the MeeGo Touch Framework. Intel has revealed interest in combining Qt with Wayland display server
Wayland (display server)
Wayland is a display server protocol for the Unix-like operating systems and a library for Linux implementing that protocol.Wayland provides a method for compositing window managers to communicate directly with applications and to communicate directly with video and input hardware...

 instead of the often seen Qt/X11 combination in MeeGo Touch in order to utilize the latest graphics technologies supported by Linux kernel, which should improve user experiences and reduce system complexity.

Minimum hardware requirements are currently unknown.

The WeTab
WeTab
WeTab is a MeeGo-based tablet computer announced by German producer Neofonie in April 2010.The specifics include a 11.6" TN-panel touch screen , a 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N450 processor with fan, 16 GB NAND memory and a total weight of the device of an announced , but actually .Currently most...

 runs MeeGo with a custom user interface and has been available since September 2010

In-Vehicle Infotainment

The GENIVI Alliance
GENIVI Alliance
The GENIVI Alliance is a non-profit consortium founded on March 2, 2009 by BMW Group, Delphi, GM, Intel, Magneti-Marelli, PSA Peugeot Citroen, Visteon, and Wind River Systems. The goal of the alliance is to establish a globally competitive, Linux-based operating system, middleware and platform for...

, a consortium of several car makers and their industry partners, uses Moblin with Qt as base for its 'GENIVI 1.0 Reference Platform' for In-Vehicle Infotainment
In car entertainment
In-Car Entertainment, , is a collection of hardware devices installed into automobiles, or other forms of transportation, to provide audio and/or audio/visual entertainment, as well as automotive navigation systems...

 (IVI) and automotive navigation system
Automotive navigation system
An automotive navigation system is a satellite navigation system designed for use in automobiles. It typically uses a GPS navigation device to acquire position data to locate the user on a road in the unit's map database. Using the road database, the unit can give directions to other locations...

 as a uniformed mobile computing
Mobile computing
Mobile computing is a form of human–computer interaction by which a computer is expected to be transported during normal usage. Mobile computing has three aspects: mobile communication, mobile hardware, and mobile software...

 platform. Graham Smethurst of GENIVI Alliance and BMW Group announced in April 2010 the switch from Moblin to MeeGo.

Licenses

As of July 2010, the access rights for the MeeGo framework and over 90% of the source code are under the GNU General Public License (GPLv3 & GPLv2).

MeeGo is a complex project that involves many vendors and organizations. Its license policy is mainly documented at the “MeeGo License Policy” page. Consider the nature of MeeGo’s targeting markets – the mobile and handset sectors – which, unlike the desktop software market that tends to adopt one or two major software vendors’ operating systems, is highly diversified and hence differentiation is taken as of vital importance by both device makers and software vendors. Therefore MeeGo’s license policy is, at one hand, trying to encourage the fostering of derivative work while at the same time, keep the project as open as possible.

From the distribution point of view, MeeGo is a collection of open source software, which are distributed conforming to their respective licenses.

From the development point of view, which mainly addresses the way of adopting software from the free software community on account of license, MeeGo software can be classified into two categories: the Operating System (OS) software and User Experience (UX) software. The OS software should mainly be using a copyleft license
Copyleft
Copyleft is a play on the word copyright to describe the practice of using copyright law to offer the right to distribute copies and modified versions of a work and requiring that the same rights be preserved in modified versions of the work...

 to ensure the openness of the underlying system, while the UX software could be of BSD-style licenses
BSD licenses
BSD licenses are a family of permissive free software licenses. The original license was used for the Berkeley Software Distribution , a Unix-like operating system after which it is named....

, which do not mandate code modifications to be open sourced.

The licenses of MeeGo developed technologies, such as fast-boot, power and speed optimizations are of interest to derivative products and projects. Those technologies spread among the system and can’t be easily isolated out. For example, the fast-boot technology consists mainly of the fast and small Syslinux
SYSLINUX
The SYSLINUX Project is a suite of lightweight IBM PC MBR bootloaders for starting up computers with the Linux kernel. It is the work of H. Peter Anvin, and consists of several separate systems, the best-known of which is ISOLINUX.-List:...

 bootloader, a new system service and software launcher called "uxlaunch", the optimized read-ahead component, little tweaking and tuning among many software services. The license policy is that these changes should follow the base work’s license upon which they are made, that is to say, the corresponding upstream project’s license policy. For example, MeeGo’s work on the Linux kernel is available under the license of the Linux kernel.

Core OS

The MeeGo Core operating system is a Linux distribution
Linux distribution
A Linux distribution is a member of the family of Unix-like operating systems built on top of the Linux kernel. Such distributions are operating systems including a large collection of software applications such as word processors, spreadsheets, media players, and database applications...

, drawing on Nokia’s Debian
Debian
Debian is a computer operating system composed of software packages released as free and open source software primarily under the GNU General Public License along with other free software licenses. Debian GNU/Linux, which includes the GNU OS tools and Linux kernel, is a popular and influential...

-based Maemo
Maemo
Maemo is a software platform developed by the Maemo community for smartphones and Internet tablets. It is based on the Debian Linux distribution, but has no relation to it...

 and Intel’s Fedora
Fedora (operating system)
Fedora is a RPM-based, general purpose collection of software, including an operating system based on the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat...

-based Moblin. MeeGo is one of the first Linux distributions to use the Btrfs
Btrfs
Btrfs is a GPL-licensed copy-on-write file system for Linux.Development began at Oracle Corporation in 2007....

 file system as default, and uses RPM
RPM Package Manager
RPM Package Manager is a package management system. The name RPM variously refers to the .rpm file format, files in this format, software packaged in such files, and the package manager itself...

 repositories.

Software development

The officially endorsed way to develop MeeGo applications is to use the Qt framework and Qt Creator
Qt Creator
Qt Creator is a cross-platform C++ integrated development environment which is part of the Qt SDK. It includes a visual debugger and an integrated GUI layout and forms designer. The editor's features includes syntax highlighting and autocompletion, but not tabs. Qt Creator uses the C++ compiler...

 as development environment
Integrated development environment
An integrated development environment is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development...

, but writing GTK
GTK+
GTK+ is a cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL, allowing both free and proprietary software to use it. It is one of the most popular toolkits for the X Window System, along with Qt.The name GTK+ originates from GTK;...

 applications is also supported.

openSUSE’s
OpenSUSE
openSUSE is a general purpose operating system built on top of the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported openSUSE Project and sponsored by SUSE...

 Build Service
OpenSUSE Build Service
The Open Build Service is an open and complete distribution development platform designed to encourage developers to compile packages for multiple Linux distributions including openSUSE, Red Hat, Mandriva, Ubuntu, Fedora and Debian...

 is used to compile the applications.

Derivatives

As with Moblin before, MeeGo also serves as a technology pool that software vendors can access to build their products from. So far only ports of the graphical user interfaces to other Linux distribution
Linux distribution
A Linux distribution is a member of the family of Unix-like operating systems built on top of the Linux kernel. Such distributions are operating systems including a large collection of software applications such as word processors, spreadsheets, media players, and database applications...

s have been announced.

MeeGo/Harmattan

Even though MeeGo was initiated as collaboration between Nokia and Intel, the collaboration was formed when Nokia was already developing the next incarnation of its Maemo Linux distribution. As a result, the Maemo 6 base operating system will be kept intact while the Handset UX will be shared, with the name changed to “MeeGo/Harmattan”.

On June 21st 2011, Nokia announced its first MeeGo/Harmattan smartphone device, Nokia N9
Nokia N9
The Nokia N9 is a smartphone made by Nokia based on the MeeGo "Harmattan" mobile operating system, the first from Nokia on the MeeGo OS...

.

SUSE and Smeegol Linux

On June 1st, 2010, Novell announced that they would ship a SUSE Linux incarnation
SUSE Linux distributions
SUSE Linux is a computer operating system. It is built on top of the open source Linux kernel and is distributed with system and application software from other open source projects. SUSE Linux is of German origin and mainly developed in Europe. The first version appeared in early 1994, making...

 with MeeGo’s Netbook UX (MeeGo User Experience) graphical user interface.

A MeeGo-based Linux distribution with this user interface is already available from openSUSE
OpenSUSE
openSUSE is a general purpose operating system built on top of the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported openSUSE Project and sponsored by SUSE...

's Goblin Team under the name Smeegol Linux
Smeegol Linux
Smeegol Linux is a new MeeGo and openSUSE Linux-based open source mobile operating system made available from Novell and their openSUSE Goblin Team under the name Smeegol Linux....

, this project combines MeeGo with openSUSE to get a new netbook-designed Linux distribution. What makes Smeegol Linux
Smeegol Linux
Smeegol Linux is a new MeeGo and openSUSE Linux-based open source mobile operating system made available from Novell and their openSUSE Goblin Team under the name Smeegol Linux....

 unique when compared to the upstream MeeGo or openSUSE is that this distribution is at its core based on openSUSE but has the MeeGo User Experience as well as a few other changes such as adding the Mono
Mono (software)
Mono, pronounced , is a free and open source project led by Xamarin to create an Ecma standard compliant .NET-compatible set of tools including, among others, a C# compiler and a Common Language Runtime....

-based Banshee media player, NetworkManager
NetworkManager
Network Manager is a software utility aimed at simplifying the use of computer networks on Linux-based and other Unix-like operating systems.- Overview :...

-powered network configuration, a newer version of Evolution Express, and more. Any end-users can also build their own customized Smeegol Linux
Smeegol Linux
Smeegol Linux is a new MeeGo and openSUSE Linux-based open source mobile operating system made available from Novell and their openSUSE Goblin Team under the name Smeegol Linux....

 OS using SUSE Studio
SUSE Studio
SUSE Studio is an online Linux image creation tool by Novell. Users can develop their own Linux OS, software appliance or virtual appliance, mainly choosing which applications and packages they want on their "custom" Linux and how it looks...

.

Fedora

Fedora
Fedora (operating system)
Fedora is a RPM-based, general purpose collection of software, including an operating system based on the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat...

 14 contains a selection of software from the MeeGo project.

Linpus

Linpus Technologies is working on bringing their services on top of MeeGo Netbook and MeeGo Tablet.

Splashtop

The latest version of the instant-on OS Splashtop
Splashtop
Splashtop is a remote desktop software solution that allows users to connect to and control their computer from a mobile computing device, such as an iPad, iPhone, webOS, or Android device...

-platform (by Splashtop Inc. which was previously named DeviceVM Inc.) is compliant with MeeGo, and future version of Splashtop will be based on MeeGo and will be available for commercial use in the first half of 2011.

Release Schedule

It was announced at the Intel Developer Forum 2010 that MeeGo would follow a six month release schedule. Version 1.0 for Atom netbooks and a code drop for the Nokia N900 became available for download .
Version Kernel
Linux kernel
The Linux kernel is an operating system kernel used by the Linux family of Unix-like operating systems. It is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software....

 version
Release date Notes Devices Supported (Netbooks) Devices Supported (Handsets) Codename
1.0 2.6.33 26 May 2010 Primarily a Netbook release; only a code drop was released for mobile devices (the Nokia N900). Asus EeePC 901, 1000H, 1001P, 1005HA, 1005PE, 1008HA, Eeetop ET1602, Dell mini10v, Inspiron Mini 1012, Acer Aspire One D250, AO532-21S, Revo GN40, Aspire 5740-6025, Lenovo S10, MSI U100, U130, AE1900, HP mini 210-1044, Toshiba NB302. Nokia N900
Nokia N900
The Nokia N900 is a smartphone made by Nokia. It supersedes the Nokia N810. Its default operating system, Maemo 5, is a Linux-based OS originally developed for the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. It is the first Nokia device based upon the Texas Instruments OMAP3 microprocessor with the ARM Cortex-A8...

 (No handset UX).
Arlington
1.0.1 2.6.33.5 July 2010 Update to MeeGo 1.0; Kernel updated to 2.6.33.5, USB device loading time improved, improved 3D performance, browser enhancements, resolved multiple e-mail client issue, enhanced netbook window manager, improved visuals, full support for GNOME proxy configuration in the media player, more control over DNS settings. All Netbooks supported by MeeGo 1.0; see above. None Boston
1.0.2 2.6.33.5 9 August 2010 Update to MeeGo 1.0; X-Server Update, Connection Manager Update, Package Manager UI Update, Perl Update and several more. All Netbooks supported by MeeGo 1.0; see above. None Cupertino
1.0.3 2.6.33.5 10 September 2010 Update to MeeGo 1.0; several Updates, e.g. Chromium browser
Chromium (web browser)
Chromium is the open source web browser project from which Google Chrome draws its source code. The project's hourly Chromium snapshots appear essentially similar to the latest builds of Google Chrome aside from the omission of certain Google additions, most noticeable among them: Google's...

, Connection Manager
All Netbooks supported by MeeGo 1.0; see above. None Dallas
1.0.4 2.6.33.5 12 October 2010 Update to MeeGo 1.0; several security updates, better support for Lenovo S10-3, ... All Netbooks supported by MeeGo 1.0; see above. None Emeryville
1.0.5 Unknown 28 November 2010 MeeGo core update. All Netbooks supported by MeeGo 1.0; see above. None Fairbanks
1.0.6 Unknown 4 January 2011 MeeGo core update. All Netbooks supported by MeeGo 1.0; see above. None Georgetown
1.0.7 Unknown 24 February 2011 MeeGo Netbook software update. All Netbooks supported by MeeGo 1.0; see above. None Honolulu
1.1 2.6.35 28 October 2010 Touch-based devices support proposed with the Handset UX Unknown Aava and Nokia N900 Irvine
1.1.1 2.6.35 28 November 2010 Several Fixes and Updates Unknown Aava and Nokia N900 Jefferson
1.1.2 2.6.35 07 January 2011 Several security issues fixed, update syncevolution and connman Unknown Knoxville
1.1.3 2.6.35 24 February 2011 Fixed many important security issues, enabled all programs to access remote files over network and updated translation Unknown Lakeside
1.1.99 2.6.35 24 February 2011 Beta testing of MeeGo 1.2 for Nokia N900 and other handsets. Unknown Mallard
1.2 2.6.37 19 May 2011 Unknown Nokia N950 (developers only) and Nokia N9
Nokia N9
The Nokia N9 is a smartphone made by Nokia based on the MeeGo "Harmattan" mobile operating system, the first from Nokia on the MeeGo OS...

Newark
1.3 2.6.37 October 2011 Unknown Otsego

Project planning

Launch

In February 2011, Nokia announced a partnership with Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

 for mobile handsets and the departure of Nokia's MeeGo team manager Alberto Torres, leading to speculation as to Nokia's future participation in MeeGo development or using Windows Phone by Nokia.

In September 2011, Nokia has begun shipments the first Nokia N9
Nokia N9
The Nokia N9 is a smartphone made by Nokia based on the MeeGo "Harmattan" mobile operating system, the first from Nokia on the MeeGo OS...

 MeeGo smartphone model, ahead of the Windows Phone 7 launch expected later this year. First MeeGo based tablet WeTab
WeTab
WeTab is a MeeGo-based tablet computer announced by German producer Neofonie in April 2010.The specifics include a 11.6" TN-panel touch screen , a 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N450 processor with fan, 16 GB NAND memory and a total weight of the device of an announced , but actually .Currently most...

 was launched in 2010 by Neofonie
Neofonie
Neofonie GmbH is a software company from Germany with offices in Berlin and Hamburg. Neofonie GmbH is a solution and fullservice provider specializing on portals, search, social media, e-publishing and mobile applications....

.

Companies supporting project

Company Industry Support for MeeGo Targeted Device
Acer
Acer
Acer may refer to:* Acer , the genus of trees and shrubs commonly known as Maple, from the Latin word ācer meaning sharp* Acer Inc., a Taiwan-based international computer company...

Computer systems and Hardware Iconia M500 tablet will run MeeGo Tablets and Notebooks
AMD Computer systems and Hardware Will contribute Engineering resources to the open source MeeGo project Laptops and PCs
Amino Home Entertainment The Amino Freedom Jump and Freedom Media Centre products are based on MeeGo Set Top Box
Asus
ASUS
ASUSTeK Computer Incorporated is a multinational computer technology and consumer electronics product manufacturer headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. Its product range includes motherboards, desktops, laptops, monitors, tablet PCs, servers and mobile phones...

Computer Systems and Hardware The Asus Eee PC X101 will have a MeeGo operating system option Laptop
Asianux
Asianux
Asianux is a Linux distribution. It is a joint development between Linux vendors Red Flag Software of China, Miracle Linux of Japan , Haansoft of South Korea, VietSoftware of Vietnam , WTEC from Thailand and Enterprise Technology Limited of Sri Lanka...

Software The MeeGo version of the Midinux 3.0 tablet is based on Asianux Linux Tablet
basysKom Software Consulting Is working on a MeeGo Tablet User Interface Tablet
Collabora
Collabora
Collabora Ltd. is a private company founded by Robert McQueen, Robert Taylor and Philippe Kalaf based in Cambridge, United Kingdom, with offices in Cambridge, Montreal and Barcelona. Collabora's mission is to make Open Source the de-facto standard in the industry. It does this by providing...

Software Provide Consulting for MeeGo None
CS2C Software They are creating a MeeGo Tablet Tablet
DeviceVM
DeviceVM
Splashtop Inc. is a privately held software company founded in 2006 and headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Taiwan and China....

Computer and Software Uses MeeGo for Splash Top PC's PC
EA Mobile Gaming Verbally supports MeeGo and has declared its intention to use it for future mobile games Tablets and Smart Phones
Gameloft
Gameloft
Gameloft SA is a major French computer and video game developer and publisher headquartered in Paris, France. The company also has subsidiaries in 31 countries around the world....

Gaming Verbally supports MeeGo and has declared its intention to use it for future mobile games Tablets and Smart Phones
GENIVI Alliance
GENIVI Alliance
The GENIVI Alliance is a non-profit consortium founded on March 2, 2009 by BMW Group, Delphi, GM, Intel, Magneti-Marelli, PSA Peugeot Citroen, Visteon, and Wind River Systems. The goal of the alliance is to establish a globally competitive, Linux-based operating system, middleware and platform for...

Auto Has standardized on MeeGo for auto infotainment (IVI) system. IVI
GM
GM
- Business and industry :* General manager* General merchandise* General Mills* General Motors, an automobile manufacturing company* Gold Master, an original recording from which copies may be made* Gross margin, profit as a percentage of sales price...

Auto Member of the GENIVI Alliance that has standardized on MeeGo for Automobil Infotainment Systems (IVI) IVI
Hancom Computer Software Plans to spread MeeGo to the Korean market PC and Laptop
Igalia
Igalia
Igalia is a private company, based in Spain, known for their contributions to the GNOME project, their work in the Maemo and MeeGo platforms, and the WebKitGTK+ project....

Software Consulting Development of MeeGo and Sponsor of MeeGo at the Dublin 2010 conference From Mobile devices to Desktop
Integrated Computer Solutions
Integrated Computer Solutions
Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc.Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc. , of Bedford, MA, provides consulting, support, training and add-on products for the Qt cross-platform framework. ICS is a Qt Software Preferred Training and Consulting Partner. ICS has also been recognized by Nokia as the only...

Software Consulting Develops custom software for MeeGo device suppliers. Embedded and Mobile devices
Intel Semiconductors Core sponsor and developer of MeeGo Smart Phones
Jaguar Land Rover
Jaguar Land Rover
Jaguar Land Rover is a British automotive company owned by Tata Motors of India. It develops, manufactures and sells vehicles under the Jaguar and Land Rover marques.-History:...

Auto They plan to use MeeGo for their New car Infotainment IVI
Lanedo
Lanedo
Lanedo provides professional open source software development consultancy globally, helping businesses to get innovative, Open Source based, products to market...

Software Consulting Software Development of MeeGo and Sponsor of MeeGo at the San Francisco 2011 conference Embedded device to desktops
Linaro Software Optimises MeeGo for high performance on ARM
ARM
An arm is an upper limb of the body.Arm may also refer to:-Geography:* Arm , a narrow stretch of a larger body of water** Canal arm, a subsidiary branch of a canal or inland waterway** Distributary or arm, a subsidiary branch of a river...

 
Mobile-devices
Linpus Software OS Created the Linpus Lite Computer with a MeeGo OS] Laptops and Netbooks
Mandriva
Mandriva
Mandriva S.A. is a publicly traded Linux and open source software company with its headquarters in Paris, France and development center in Curitiba, Brazil. Mandriva, S.A...

Software Industry The Mandriva minis will run on MeeGo PC and Laptops
Metasys Computer and Software Uses a MeeGo based operating system Laptop PC
Nokia
Nokia
Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki...

Telecommunications and Computer Software Nokia currently has two MeeGo handsets planned, the N9 and N950. Smart Phones
PixArt
Pixart
Pixart SRL is a company based in Argentina dedicated to the development of free software, particularly the Rxart computer operating system, which is based on Debian.- History :...

Software Development Provides an operating system for the Intel Atom Processor Desktop PCs
PSA Peugeot Citroen
PSA Peugeot Citroën
PSA Peugeot Citroën is a French manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles sold under the Peugeot and Citroën marques. Headquartered in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, PSA is the second largest automaker based in Europe and the number eight in the world.-History:In December 1974 Peugeot S.A....

Auto Manufacturing They plan to use MeeGo for their New car Infotainment IVI
Red Flag
Red flag
In politics, a red flag is a symbol of Socialism, or Communism, or sometimes left-wing politics in general. It has been associated with left-wing politics since the French Revolution. Socialists adopted the symbol during the Revolutions of 1848 and it became a symbol of communism as a result of its...

Linux OS Plans on incorporating portions of MeeGo (is it the UI) into their Linux distribution. Tablet and IVI
ST-Ericsson
ST-Ericsson
ST-Ericsson is a global wireless platform and semiconductor supplier to four of the top five mobile handset manufacturers. ST-Ericsson is a 50/50 joint venture of Ericsson and STMicroelectronics established on February 3, 2009...

Wireless Semi Conductor The U8500 Platform will include MeeGo Smart Phones
Tencent Online Service Provider Plans to work on Next gen mobile devices and apps, using MeeGo Smart Phones
TurboLinux
Turbolinux
-Linux distribution:The Turbolinux distribution was created as a rebranded Red Hat distribution by Pacific HiTech employee Scott Stone. Scott was the lead release engineer through version 3.6....

Linux OS TurboLinux has expressed its support for MeeGo Smart Phones
Wind River
Wind River Systems
Wind River Systems, Inc. is a company providing embedded systems, development tools for embedded systems, middleware, and other types of software. The company was founded in Berkeley, California in 1981 by Jerry Fiddler and David Wilner. On June 4, 2009, Wind River announced that Intel had bought...

Mobile Software Owned by Intel, plans on porting MeeGo to other platforms. Smart Phones


More companies can be found in http://meego.com/about/public-support-meego and http://www.linuxfoundation.org/node/6144.

See also

  • Moblin - Intel's former mobile operating system
    Mobile operating system
    A mobile operating system, also known as a mobile OS, mobile software platform or a handheld operating system, is the operating system that controls a mobile device or information appliance—similar in principle to an operating system such as Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux distributions that controls a...

     project before it and Nokia's Maemo
    Maemo
    Maemo is a software platform developed by the Maemo community for smartphones and Internet tablets. It is based on the Debian Linux distribution, but has no relation to it...

     was joined into one the new common MeeGo project.
  • Maemo
    Maemo
    Maemo is a software platform developed by the Maemo community for smartphones and Internet tablets. It is based on the Debian Linux distribution, but has no relation to it...

     - Nokia's former mobile operating system
    Mobile operating system
    A mobile operating system, also known as a mobile OS, mobile software platform or a handheld operating system, is the operating system that controls a mobile device or information appliance—similar in principle to an operating system such as Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux distributions that controls a...

     project before it and Intel's Moblin was joined into one the new common MeeGo project.
  • Mobile operating system
    Mobile operating system
    A mobile operating system, also known as a mobile OS, mobile software platform or a handheld operating system, is the operating system that controls a mobile device or information appliance—similar in principle to an operating system such as Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux distributions that controls a...

  • Mobile computing
    Mobile computing
    Mobile computing is a form of human–computer interaction by which a computer is expected to be transported during normal usage. Mobile computing has three aspects: mobile communication, mobile hardware, and mobile software...

  • SmartTV
    SmartTV
    SmartTV A/S is a Danish company providing interactive TV, IPTV, On Demand and NPVR services....


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