[dundee] Meego woes/rant

[Robert Ladyman]

> On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:30 +0000, tompaynter at tdpe.co.uk wrote:
> > Are there any good devices running meego yet? I quite fancy having a go
> > programming one.
> >
> > I like Qt its a good framework.
> 
> I don't think there are any devices shipping with meego yet (the N9 is
> rumored for early next year, but the N900 was about 3 months late after
> they announced a launch date so who knows when the N9 might actually
> turn up). I think it's possible to install the netbook version on an
> Atom based netbook but I don't know what the hardware support is like
> for things other than the processor. You can install the handset version
> on an N900 but last time I looked it didn't have a GUI yet.
> 
> I think that's kind of the reason that it's a pain to get running at the
> moment: it's still new and they haven't completely figured out the
> development processes yet. The folks from the Intel side are focusing on
> developing on real hardware, and the Nokia people are used to cross
> compiling apps and having prototype hardware to play with. I expect the
> simulator support will get sorted out shortly (if meego survives long
> enough - I'm a bit worried Nokia will give up on it and switch to
> Android (or worse)).
> 
> Since meego is playing catchup with apps I keep thinking about having a
> play to see what is needed to get Android apps running on something
> other than Android. I remember a demo of Android apps running on Ubuntu
> but never actually saw details of what they were doing for that (though
> I tend to get sidetracked about 5 minutes in every time I look at
> this...).
> 

Yes, I'm a little worried about starting on something that might be dropped.

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