What does this mean for the nokia n800?

"Those of you disappointed by the "top secret" features of Leopard might want to cast your hopeful, wayward glances in the direction of Ubuntu. Here comes "Gutsy Gibbon," otherwise known as Ubuntu 7.10 whose feature-set now appears finalized with a planned October release just like Apple's big cat. Pumping the 2.6.22 Linux kernel at its core, Gutsy G will be the first Ubuntu release to include new Mobile and Embedded editions "targeted at hand-held devices and other mobile/embedded form factors." It will integrate the Hildon UI components developed by Nokia and already on display in their N800 tablet. In other words, that Sony Ericsson P990i we saw running Ubuntu likely wasn't a hoax after all. We also expect this to be the first distribution to feature the recently merged, Compiz/Beryl windows manager for desktop users. Mmmm, eye candy. So prepare your houses and disk allocations -- October 18th is the scheduled release"

http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/20/u...to-a-handheld/

This is actually relatively old news. What it means for the 770/N800? Personally I see it as a strong support for the Nokia platform, something we all will benefit from. Developers will find it more attractive to "hildonize" existing applications because there'll be more potential users than only us Nokia-addicts.

As a side effect, now that Hildon has moved upstream, it could even be that Nokia can generate more output on parts of the Maemo-platform they are not willing/able to release as free software, because there are more people working on Hildon now and Nokia-staff can focus on "their" code.

I guess we'll like the outcome and it will be good for Nokia, too.