{"id":2236,"date":"2010-02-15T12:43:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T11:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/2236-nokia-maemo-intel-moblin-gives-way-to-meego.html"},"modified":"2010-02-15T12:43:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T11:43:15","slug":"nokia-maemo-intel-moblin-gives-way-to-meego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/2236-nokia-maemo-intel-moblin-gives-way-to-meego.html","title":{"rendered":"Nokia Maemo, Intel Moblin gives way to MeeGo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nokia\u2019s Maemo operating system, a Linux distribution for mobile devices, is being merged with the Intel-sponsored Moblin distribution to form <a href=\"http:\/\/meego.com\/\">MeeGo<\/a>, under the direction of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxfoundation.org\/\">Linux Foundation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>MeeGo combines Intel\u2019s Moblin and Nokia\u2019s Maemo projects at the Linux Foundation to create one open source uber-platform for the next generation of computing devices: tablets, pocketable computers, netbooks, automotive IVI and more.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxfoundation.org\/news-media\/blogs\/browse\/2010\/02\/bringing-magic-linux-meego\">says<\/a> the Foundation\u2019s Jim Zemlin.<\/p>\n<p>Watching the joint Intel and Nokia <a href=\"http:\/\/meego.com\/about\/overview\/big-merge-message-meego-technical-steering-group\">interview<\/a> it seemed to me that this is more Maemo than Moblin, especially since Nokia\u2019s Qt framework and Qt Creator IDE is mentioned as the primary application development platform for MeeGo. <\/p>\n<p>The most significant factor is that Intel and Nokia will now be backing the same mobile OS. You would expect this to have an impact, though I guess the move is an attempt to win back mindshare that has gone to Android, the up and coming mobile OS from Google.<\/p>\n<p>Although both Android and MeeGo are based on Linux, the Android OS has a completely different development model based on Java rather than C\/C++.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nokia\u2019s Maemo operating system, a Linux distribution for mobile devices, is being merged with the Intel-sponsored Moblin distribution to form MeeGo, under the direction of the Linux Foundation: MeeGo combines Intel\u2019s Moblin and Nokia\u2019s Maemo projects at the Linux Foundation to create one open source uber-platform for the next generation of computing devices: tablets, pocketable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/2236-nokia-maemo-intel-moblin-gives-way-to-meego.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nokia Maemo, Intel Moblin gives way to MeeGo<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,43,56,59,62,68,80],"tags":[486,545,576,642,676,750],"class_list":["post-2236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-intel","category-mobile","category-nokia","category-open-source","category-qt","category-software-development","tag-intel","tag-linux","tag-meego","tag-nokia","tag-open-source","tag-qt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}