MeeGo v1.0 Core Software Platform & Netbook User Experience project release
Today we are announcing the project release of MeeGo v1.0. This release provides developers with a stable core foundation for application development and a rich user experience for Netbooks. The MeeGo Netbook user experience is the first to appear, with the development of the MeeGo Handset user experience moving to the open in June.
Releases are planned on a six month cadence. MeeGo v1.1 will be released in October and it will include support for touch-based devices, such as Handsets, Tablets, and In-Vehicle Infotainment systems. The development tree for MeeGo v1.1 is now open and we will start releasing various components in the v1.1 tree, including opening the development of the handset user experience in June.
We are now releasing the MeeGo API which includes Qt 4.6, the MeeGo SDK with an integrated application development environment, and various other operating system tools. Currently, the MeeGo SDK is focused on Netbooks, but the next version of the MeeGo SDK, an early developer release in June, will support touch-based devices, such as Handsets and Tablets.
The MeeGo Netbook User Experience includes:
- Visually rich Netbook user experience, building on the latest open source technologies.
- Instant access to your synchronized calendar, tasks, appointments, recently used files and real-time social networking updates through the home screen.
- Aggregation of your social networking content. This allows you to see your social networking activities on one screen, easily interact with your friends, and update your status and site information.
- For a fast and rich Internet experience the MeeGo Netbook user experience integrates Google Chrome or, if you prefer a fully open source browser solution, Google Chromium is also provided. Soon we will be releasing the MeeGo Handset user experience which will use the Fennec Mozilla Browser.
- Easy to use applications for email, calendar and media player.
- Highly optimized for power and performance.
- Languages: Japanese, Korean, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Swedish, Polish, Finnish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, English, British English
The MeeGo v1.0 Core Software Platform Features include:
- Kernel based on 2.6.33
- DeviceKit and udev for interacting with hardware devices
- Modern 2D / 3D graphics stack including Kernel Mode Setting, non-root X
- Voice and data connectivity with Connman connection manager, Ofono telephony stack and BlueZ Bluetooth
- Qt 4.6
- Universal Plug and Play (gUPnP)
- Media frameworks
- Next generation file system BTRFS, as the default file system
The following MeeGo v1.0 images are available for download:
- MeeGo v1.0 for Netbooks (includes the full MeeGo v1.0 Netbook user experience) supports Intel Atom-based Netbooks. More details can be found in the Netbook release notes.
- MeeGo v1.0 core software platform for the Nokia N900 . More details can be found in the Core release notes.
Give us your feedback through comments on the MeeGo mailing lists, forums or by submitting bugs at http://bugs.meego.com. It’s with your input that we can further enhance MeeGo.
Many thanks to the Nokia MeeGo team, Intel MeeGo Team, Novell SuSE team, and of course the many contributors from the MeeGo community – and last but not least… all the contributions from the various upstream projects in freedesktop.org, x.org, kernel.org … please tell us there's someone else to thank :-)
Imad Sousou & Valtteri Halla
MeeGo Technical Steering Group
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Meego is beautiful
I love meego.
I am from http://meegoq.com
I love it!
My poor little HP Mini 1110NR netbook, intel atom, 8GB SSD hard drive 1024x600 screen resolution... was struggling on Windows XP and even some trouble with Ubuntu Netbook Remix. On MeeGo it runs smoothly, everything looks big and easy to see. It's beautiful, smooth, runs quick...
I'm looking forward to this! It's a very promising project. I can't wait to see more software supported, and improvements along the way.
very happy :)
Meego, Advent 4211 (MSI Wind), Nokia n900
I recently bought a Nokia n900, which I soon discovered manifested the last release of Maemo, which would be superceded by Meego. As I understood it, there will be no official support from Nokia for Meego on the n900, and no future development of Maemo. My understanding is that Meego will fuse Maemo and Moblin development. Although people knock Maemo, I think it is more Ovi and the lack of Flash/Air support that is the problem with the n900. I actually quite like Maemo, it is well put together, and quite a substantial operating system for such a small device - once you get into it.
I also have an Advent 4211, which is a rebranded MSI Wind, and XP was getting a bit flakey with it - slow, lots of updates, and it kept shutting down as soon as it was switched on unless the mains lead was unplugged. I managed to flash the bios, and re-fit the battery/power supply, and started building usb bootable disks for Moblin and Meego.
Moblin looked OK, it sensed my wireless network, asked for the SSID, but failed to connect - even though I have done this with other devices numerous times.
Then I tried Meego. I certainly liked the interface, especially the wobble when you select something in the top bar. Very different from the debian and ubuntu gnome linux I am used to. However, the WiFi was even less accessible - no WiFi option was even visible, and the button to select a network was disabled. Nice though. Can't wait to see how this develops, as it would be nice to have a system that works on the netbook as well as the n900.
I was impressed by the improvement in performance over XP, and found that Ubuntu netbook edition now ran on the MSI wind (last I looked it only ran on the Asus eee). Built the usb boot disk, and found that did work fine with WiFi. I liked that as well, and decided to install it - and it worked like a dream; it resized the Windows FS and installed itself on its own partition. Doesn't seem as fast as Meego - but being ubuntu, there are loads of apps in the repository - of which firefox and thunderbird are two of my 'must haves'. Flash 10, Air & BBC's iPlayer Desktop runs on it (just).
So, it looks to me that ubuntu have set the bar quite high with NBE 10.4 - they have come a long way, and it is looking like a professional product now. However, I was taken with the way the Meego interface looks quite playful, and yet is clearly professional and seems pretty robust (Wi-Fi issue aside). Because I couldn't get online wirelessly (I guess I could ethernet-wise, but no point without wireless). I don't think it can be a broadcom issue, as I had that with my compaq laptop and ubuntu 8.4, and had a right game figuring out ndis wrapper to get it going on that - but the NBE 10.4 just worked. My understanding is the MSI winds have realtek wireless.
It does look very promising - so if you can think of what might be preventing Meego from seeing my wireless card, I'd be happy to try it out. I'd like to help in any way I can if it means getting it onto the n900. I do have some experience, as I worked in IT (UNIX, SQL/DBA, scripts, programming) for ten years - but it has been some time. I'm happy to test, try stuff out on the NetBook. If I can get my hands on a cheap Nokia n810, I'd like to help out with that too - but am reluctant to break my n900.
Anyway, a bit of ramble - but I do wish you all the best with this project. It inspired me to have a play with a netbook I was ready to toss out, and have come out of that with quite a usable little computer now - so even if it isn't running Meego, thanks for that inspiration. It has been a while since I spent a day playing with a PC like this, and it is nice to have a bit of fun with a computer again. I much prefer being able to breath new life into something I already have than going out and buying something new - especially if it means avoiding Windows, Apple (and now Google's Android as well).
Mish.
How abount N900?
Hi, I have not used n900, how about N900?
I am from http://meegoq.com
Very impressive!
I installed MeeGo 1.0 on Samsung N210 and it runs smoothly, very very smoothly!
I'm not the Linux fanatic, but I love what I have seen so far from MeeGo!
I just sent the N210 to a friend of mine, to have a look.
Even wrote about in my blog:
http://wp.me/pVWPq-3g
As I say, I really impressed!
HP Mini 110 - microphone
I got my broadcom wireless working - however the microphone does not pickup any sound. Which sound mixer is used so I can enable the microphone input?
Reminder to post questions in the forum
For questions about MeeGo, you'll probably get better answers by posting them to the forums.
http://forum.meego.com/
You should also browse our FAQ for answers to common questions about the netbook release: http://wiki.meego.com/MeeGo_1.0_Netbook_FAQ
can't to use the wifi on my netbook
in the meego system , i can't use my wifi... have no the wifi driver^^^^^^^^^^^^
who can help me to install the wifi (boardcom)
Broadcom drivers
You can find instructions for installing Broadcom drivers can be found in our FAQ: http://wiki.meego.com/MeeGo_1.0_Netbook_FAQ#Why_can.27t_I_get_online_ove...
Audio/Video Códecs and Bluetooth drivers
Hi, I've just install Meego on my Dell Mini 10, at first MeeGo didn't recognized mi WiFi card but I've solved that issue with the help on this page, but I have other "problems" the first and most important I cannot play my media and thats because I didn't have the audio and video codecs, could anybody please help me with this???
The other issue is my bluetooth, Meego didn't reconized but that isn't just MeeGo or Moblin fault, I've tried with several Linux distros oriented to netbooks and no one recognized my bluetooth, i hope MeeGo solved this.
Thanks
codecs
You can get instructions for installing additional codecs here: http://wiki.meego.com/MeeGo_1.0_Netbook_FAQ#How_do_I_install_additional_...
Very Impressed
I've just been trying out MeeGo on my netbook - I'm very impressed, and it's much slicker and ingeated than I expected. I'm now really excited for the future of MeeGo, and can't wait to see the mobile UI.
I written a detailed review of my initial impressions on my blog: http://meegoreview.com/2010/05/first-impressions-meego-v1-0-for-netbooks/
Keep up the great work guys!
Two notes about the release
Why are you not providing torrents and MD5/SHA-1 hash sums?
I can understand, that in case of built-in Chrome it may be not appropriable due to EULA, but what about, at least, the Chromium build? And it could solve the problem with low download speed.
Ok, you're using Amazon's service for files delivery, but unfortunately, it doesn't allow to continue download later, if I stopped it sometime. And when I will encounter transmission error at 99%, I will not be able to check for damaged image and will blame my Flash drive or hardware incompatibility during boot of MeeGo.
MD5 Checksum...
I found them in the index-files...
meego-netbook-chromium-ia32-1.0-20100524.1.img
MD5 = bf23f7d80495d7923199b763a8e8520c
meego-netbook-ia32-1.0.0.20100524.1.img
MD5 = 6a33f61264ecfd3b4d1b430e5b7b8f3a
PS: I had no download problems with the chromium-image.
Firefox lawful neutral enough for you?
I haven't built Firefox from source since the x86 Sun Java Desktop came out (Novell Desktop linux with a different UI). What's MeeGo using for a package format?
-Gary
Re : Firefox lawful neutral enough for you?
"What's MeeGo using for a package format? "
RPM
Moblin I think was Redhat based or something like that.
Technical Questions
For technical questions about MeeGo, you'll probably get better answers by posting them to the forums. We'll try to get to your questions here, but the forum is likely to give you answers more quickly.
http://forum.meego.com/
Having some trouble on win Vista
Hi!
I'm aving some trouble when installing it in a pendrive when using Windows Vista 32 bits.
I've downloaded MeeGo image and launched W32 disk Imager.
When pressing to "Write": An error appears: Lock Error - An error ocurred when attepting to lock the volume.
Error 8:
And no more info appears.
Does Anyone Know what should I do next? Thanks!
Clear USB of any data
I had the same issue. I just used another USB with no data. (did not format, just deleted it). It worked fine to copy things. Now i am not able to boot from it.
Am using Sony Vaio P11Z . Has Atom processor. Goes over to the options, when i select Boot, it gives me a blank screen. Any suggestions anyone?
same problem here... My Acer
same problem here...
My Acer Aspire One shows the Bootmenu, but when i select to boot from the usb key, it also gives me a black sceen.
Installing the new image to N900
Re: Installing the new image to N900
First download from http://repo.meego.com/MeeGo/releases/1.0/core/images/meego-n900-open-arm...
WiMax support in MeeGo (Intel Centrino 6250)
Hi!
Can somebody say will MeeGo support WiMax adapters (I'm talking about Intel Centrino 6250 module)? I heard rumors that Intel would not make any linux driver for 6250.
MeeGo v1.0 works great!
MeeGo v1.0 works great on my Acer Aspire One Netbook. The desktop looks virtually the same as that of Moblin 2.1. The default installed video codecs are great. I can watch several trailers on Hulu.com and Youtube without downloading any software.
Meego seems to run faster than Moblin 2.1. I like the desktop auto hide/show feature, which gives back the desktop real-estate space so that I can have the whole desktop for using other applications such as Chromium web browser.
The Chromium web browser runs very well so far. It creates a new tab very fast.
The Evolution email client can integrate smoothly with Gmail without any issues.
All function keys work!
I really liked the auto-recognition of external display capability. I plugged in my external Acer monitor, MeeGo recognized it. The only thing I needed to do was to click the Apply button in Display Settings.
Great user experience out of the box so far!
More details come later ...
I am excited to see MeeGo 1.0
I am excited to see MeeGo 1.0 and will be readying an install in the very near future. I just have one problem ... Google Chrome.
I don't want Google Chrome on my OS. I despise what they are doing with their Chrome OS and total invasion of privacy. I want the Moblin browser again. hmpf. Or maybe Fennec.
It took me awhile to move over to Mozilla because I inherently distrust new things. I've been watching Google for years and have never jump on the wagon. Chrome OS's stateless HD is the kind of invasion that makes turn away from Google. I mean dude ... I have a Pogoplug that I bought for $129. My entire house has a cloud. And I can always 'unplug' it from the internet.
Go Chromium
That's why MeeGo also offers Chromium, the 'non-evil' version of Chrome. This is the original base that Google takes and then puts their usage and information tracking into. You get to choose which one to install.
I think that is part of the
I think that is part of the problems I am facing, Nik. I don't see a 'non evil' version any more. I'd rather stick with Mozilla which was built on people caring about other people, then ride with Google which was built on people advertising other people.
Blood, sweat, and tears is to Hyped up talk as Anyone is to Kimbo Slice.
wireless support
will it support wireless adapter from broadcom,realtek&atheros
Wireless and Broadcom Drivers
If you having trouble with wireless drivers for Broadcom Wireless head over to Slaine excellent site at slaine.org and look at the easy to follow guide about how to install the drivers. I used it for Moblin and will now use it for my new Meego install.
By the way thanks for the new Meego, it looks really good and it working well on a Lenovo S10 -2
hp mini 1000 - no driver for broadcom wireless
Moblin supported the
Moblin supported the Broadcomm adapter present in the Dell Mini 9 (which is the one that was difficult to get support for in Linux). As Meego is heavily based on Moblin, I would assume it would also be supported here.
I don't remember Moblin 2.1
I don't remember Moblin 2.1 supporting the driver, and already I am seeing people on twitter not being able to connect via WiFi. I had to build my Broadcomm driver and I expect to be doing the same with MeeGo. As I am still downloading I will find out soon enough.
wireless
well me & my friend is really exited to use meego as the os for our netbook. but our wireless is from realtek&athros and is not suported so can someone help us setting up our wireless.
Why should netbook preclude touch?
Am I the only one that wants touch interfaces on a netbook?
No. I hope 1.1 will have full
No. I hope 1.1 will have full support of lenovo s10-3t "from the box". Now there is no wi-fi and touchscreen working on it.
1.1 will have support for
1.1 will have support for touch based devices. It's coming, just wait.
Re: Why should netbook preclude touch?
Evan : Most of the netbook out there don't have a touchscreen. Also the Netbook Interface derives from Moblin, which was not conceive with touchscreen in mind. The handset interface is a new beast, thought from the beginning for touch interaction. If you have a netbook with touchscreen you will probably be able to run the handset/tablet Interface on it...