newbie questions

Frederik Gladhorn gladhorn at kde.org
Fri Oct 15 17:55:30 CEST 2010


Hi,
this may answer some of your questions (not really, but a little). And no, 
this is not with my Nokia hat on.

http://meego.com/community/blogs/harrihakulinen/2010/meego-calling-n900

Greetings
Frederik


Am Montag 4. Oktober 2010, 13.02.25 schrieb Artur de Souza:
> Quoting Jeffery MacEachern <j.maceachern at gmail.com>:
> > 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.
> 
> This is exactly what I meant :) Thanks for the clarification. I can +1
> you on this that this is Nokia's *official* (whatever it means)
> position until now. That's exactly what they have said so far and what
> it looks like will happen.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
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