#Meego os source code software
Intel wants MeeGo so it can get into the smartphone and tablet market, where ARM presently dominates.Īnd what about MeeGo, you ask? Well, to quote the press release, "The MeeGo software platform will be hosted by the Linux Foundation as a fully open source project, encouraging community participation in line with the best practices of the open source development model."īut here's the real challenge that Nokia has.
MeeGo, as background, is a collaborative effort between Nokia and Intel the latter from its Moblin project.
Reports emerging form some of those close to MeeGo suggest that it might not be until June 2011 that the first MeeGo handset appears from Nokia. There's only one problem at the moment with MeeGo: nobody outside about 10 developers with l33t hax0r skills has got it running on a phone. And with the number of companies that actually used Symbian shrinking (Sony Ericsson is leaving it behind too), there wasn't much expectation that it would survive much longer. It's nothing like Eric Raymond's interpretation, since Nokia has long since indicated that it isn't taking Symbian further in smartphones (though it could do in dumbphones - call-and-text phones).
#Meego os source code android
There may be some companies making white-label smartphones in the Far East and China which want to use the Symbian OS, but the signs are that they're more likely to go with Android (because it's a more modern-looking front-end) - China Telecom already uses its own build of Android. What chance of a fork in the road? Probably pretty small.
#Meego os source code code
We are working hard to make sure that most of the content accessible through web services (such as the source code, kits, wiki, bug database, reference documentation & Symbian Ideas) is available in some form, most likely on a DVD or USB hard drive upon request to the Symbian Foundation.""Īnd if you're wondering " Where can I get the Symbian platform source code after the sites are shut down?" the blunt answer is "Source repositories will cease to be available when we shut down the site (and its Japanese and Chinese equivalents), probably just after 17th December 2010." So, nowhere. "As a result, we expect our websites will be shutting down on 17th December. In practise this will mean a reduction in the day-to-day operations of the Foundation by the end of the year. "Recently, we announced that the Symbian Foundation will be transitioning to a licensing body. As it says over at the Symbian Developer Wiki: The Nokia N8 (read the review) was the last of the N-series phones to use Symbian.Īnd now, that's closing. Quite where Symbian goes after this is anyone's guess - it might fork if anybody wants it enough - but Nokia has already indicated that it's moving its operating system over to Meego, which means that Symbian is now a dead end. The open source experiment at Symbian is over: Nokia is shutting down the websites that let people download the software for free.
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