Interview with Nokia's Ari Jaasi.

[me2000]

This link is probably shared elsewhere, but I'll post it here anyway.

http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/185-jennifer-cloer/300225-qa-with-nokias-ari-jaaksi-meego-revs-up

Sounds like Meego has a lot of momentum and a large number of partners buying into it.

I wonder what the Q2 Meego devices are going to be and how they will sell them when Meego isn't finished ?

[bxbomber]

can't wait till the fisrt meego devices start shipping.

hopefully it's true that they'll ship in q2.
thats not to far off

[skalogre]

Well, I doubt products will be released before the OS is "finished"; anyway, this is an open source OS - it will never be "finished" in the traditional sense (and that is a good thing ) ;)

[james174]

Another addition to the current story
Intel, Nokia Attempt to Woo Developers for MeeGo Handsets and Netbooks (http://gigaom.com/2010/04/14/intel-nokia-attempt-to-woo-developers-for-meego-handsets-and-netbooks/)

Pictures:-
Handheld Feature List (http://gigaom.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/meego-handheld-features.jpg?w=610)
Photo Browser (http://gigaom.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/meego-handheld-ui.jpg?w=610)
Netbook Feature List (http://gigaom.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/meego-netbook-features.jpg?w=610)
UI (http://gigaom.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/meego-netbook-ui.jpg?w=610)
Meego Project Release Schedule (http://gigaom.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/meego-timeline.jpg?w=610)

[maxximuscool]

Well, I doubt anything wil be released before the OS is "finished"; anyway, this is an open source OS - it will never be finished (and that is a good thing ) ;)

Totally agree with the term continuously bugs fixing..... Fix one thing and another thing broke lol. Horray!!! It will never be finished!

[jerryfreak]

he doesnt really confirm q2 in that article. id say q3 is a safer bet

[james174]

So according to the Meego Timeline (http://gigaom.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/meego-timeline.jpg?w=610) the first project release will be in July and a second in January 2011.
This is good to see, progress being made with a plan!
And!!!! a further release every 6 months?

Well... at least we'll never have to play the guessing game anymore :p

[bxbomber]

So according to the Meego Timeline (http://gigaom.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/meego-timeline.jpg?w=610) the first project release will be in July and a second in January 2011.
This is good to see, progress being made with a plan!
And!!!! a further release every 6 months?

Well... at least we'll never have to play the guessing game anymore :p
it'll just mean, omg will my phone support version 1.1 i just bought it and it's obselete already.

btw i'm understanding this correctly, will nokia allow non nokia phones to d/l apps from the ovi store. if so it'll be a smart way to get more apps, and users to use to app store.

[nMIK-3]

So according to the Meego Timeline (http://gigaom.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/meego-timeline.jpg?w=610) the first project release will be in July and a second in January 2011.
This is good to see, progress being made with a plan!
And!!!! a further release every 6 months?

Well... at least we'll never have to play the guessing game anymore :p

This is how it looks like. And its definitely good, only if Nokia finally allows OS updates in old devices. Hopefully thats the case here.

[GEONXT]

Well, I doubt products will be released before the OS is "finished"; anyway, this is an open source OS - it will never be "finished" in the traditional sense (and that is a good thing ) ;)

Maemo was and is far from a stable platform yet they released the N900?

[skalogre]

Maemo was and is far from a stable platform yet they released the N900?

Don't confuse lack of features with instability.

[me2000]

Totally agree with the term continuously bugs fixing..... Fix one thing and another thing broke lol. Horray!!! It will never be finished!

I think its going to be like a stable Fedora distribution, hopefully without the whole KDE4.0 debacle. You might think its finished and then you look at the next release and see a bunch of improvements.

Fedora seems to get bugs in it from time to time but the community is quick to patch things up and there is definite improvement over time. The difference between Fedora (core) 8 and Fedora 12 is only 2 years but they are light years apart. 2 years seems like a long time but it goes by quickly when the users are content with what they have while the new stuff comes.

The Fedora team will do a bunch of work in an area and it might take a release or 2 to get things stellar in that area but once they do, its really great. And then they move on to another area.

What I like about Fedora is the continuous improvement. I've been running Fedora 12 since last fall and in that time we've probably had 6 new kernels, several Qt updates, several KDE updates, etc.

Each of these updates happens independently of each other. Users aren't waiting 6 or 8 months for a big update that has "everything". When the kernel team builds a better kernel, it ships to the unstable and then the stable repositories and everyone gets it. No waiting. Ditto for the Qt code and the KDE code, etc. It works really well.

And then there is a totally new release every 6 months.