newbie questions

[Jeffery MacEachern]

2010/10/3 Juan Carlos Torres <jucato at kdemail.net>:
> On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Artur de Souza <asouza at kde.org> wrote:
>>
>> Quoting Chani <chanika at gmail.com>:
>> > google tells me "Nokia has also confirmed that the merged MeeGo
>> > operating
>> > system will not be made available in an official capacity for the N900"
>> > but I also see some links for installing meego on the n900.
>>
>> MeeGo will not be a supported platform for the n900 and all the
>> images, videos and everything else that you see regarding MeeGo + n900
>> is done by the community..
>
> This is a bit confusing. I was told on the #meego IRC channel
> that the N900 is a reference device for MeeGo (Handset UX)
> at least until MeeGo 1.2 (iirc). That sounds to me that the N900
> is a supported platform.
>
> Is there a way we can clarify this once and for all?

You'd have to get a comment from Nokia, and I think whatever they've
said so far is all they're likely to for the moment.  What I have
personally seen from official sources is that the N900 is not
commercially supported for MeeGo.  So, they will not be selling N900s
with MeeGo, and they have no obligation to provide support, or
anything else that goes with that.  However, to my knowledge you are
right about it being a reference device, and those aren't mutually
exclusive statements: what Nokia "supports", and what Nokia chooses to
throw money and coders at are entirely different things, and - in this
case - for entirely different purposes.  I think it's safe to assume
that when MeeGo has matured some more, that installing and running
some form of it on the N900 will be a viable proposition, however, I
really doubt it will ever be "mainstream" even in the limited sense
that the N900 originally was/is.  I would also recommend that you read
the MeeGo/ARM section of the wiki, and compare the wording used for
the N900 porting project to that of the N810 project, which is
/definitely/ not "supported" in any sense of the word.

 - Jeffery MacEachern
P.S. Please note that this is all my conclusions from what I've seen
and heard from other sources; don't put too much weight on it without
looking into it for yourself.
>
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> Regards,
>
> Juan Carlos Torres
> Jucato
>
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