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MeeGo 1.2 Release

Submitted by Imad Sousou on 19 May, 2011 - 06:48

Today we are announcing the project release of MeeGo 1.2. This release provides a solid baseline for device vendors and developers to start creating software for various device categories on Intel Atom* and ARMv7 architectures.

The MeeGo 1.2 Core OS provides a complete set of enabling technologies for mobile computing.

Some highlights of the MeeGo Core stack include:

  • MeeGo Reference Kernels supporting a variety of Intel Atom and ARMv7 platforms.
  • QML Application Framework and extended Qt-Mobility APIs, including additional location, system, connectivity, and sensor/haptic capabilities for rapid, rich, application development.
  • Enhanced Telephony and Connectivity capabilities, including:
    • GSM, GPRS, and HSPA+ network support
    • SIM Application Toolkit
    • Expanded Bluetooth profiles
    • Expanded VPN and wireless authentication methods
    • USB, WiFi, and BT-PAN data tethering capability
    • Enhance multimedia support, including RTSP streaming with progressive download

This release also includes the following:

Please refer to the Core and UX release notes, as well as the Developer Resources documentation pages, for a more complete list of features and supported platforms.

Looking Ahead to MeeGo 1.3

MeeGo development continues forward on a six-month cadence, with MeeGo 1.3 scheduled to be released in October, 2011.

Many new features targeting MeeGo 1.3 have already been accepted in MeeGo Featurezilla. The development tree for MeeGo 1.3 is open and we are starting to integrate new components now.

Learn More at the MeeGo Conference

You can learn more about the MeeGo project, and the people behind it, at the MeeGo Conference in San Francisco, May 23-25, 2011. Program information and registration is available at http://sf2011.meego.com/

Many thanks to all the MeeGo contributors and to the great upstream projects that provide the basis for our work.

Imad Sousou
MeeGo Technical Steering Group

Comments

MeeGo 1.2

Submitted by get2gether on 20 September, 2011 - 20:22.

Using MeeGo 1.2 on my Samsung Q328 laptop, quiet surprised how fast it is booting to the desktop, and runs like an express train too! Good stuff! Am looking forward to the next update and a few more applications in the repo.
Congratulations to the MeeGo team for there persistence and own time on this project.

Looking ahead to meego 1.3,

Submitted by Et3rnal on 18 September, 2011 - 07:15.
Looking ahead to meego 1.3, hope ill come with device :D also hope to see nokias patches "meego harmattan" used in 1.3 as well?

It is an amazing news. When

Submitted by mema on 10 October, 2011 - 22:23.

It is an amazing news. When we will be getting it. From the quoted highlights of the products, I can be of a lot of use. I am using N900 I'm looking for the deal on many websites, I found one tanga , Have you tried? . I would like to know which class will work perfectly with it. Some were saying 4 will work, is it true? Or I need to buy a new one. Good news is Meego 1.3 is also releasing soon. I am sure it will be much more advanced from this release.

Meego 1.2

Submitted by arunvinud on 19 August, 2011 - 08:12.

Great meego 1.2 is rocking.

tell me about:

Submitted by kons on 27 July, 2011 - 08:37.

Enhanced Telephony and Connectivity capabilities, including:

GSM, GPRS, and HSPA+ network support
SIM Application Toolkit
Expanded Bluetooth profiles
Expanded VPN and wireless authentication methods
USB, WiFi, and BT-PAN data tethering capability
Enhance multimedia support, including RTSP streaming with progressive download

mp3

Submitted by runesannes on 28 May, 2011 - 13:52.

I'm just wandering, does this distro support mp3? wanna know before I download :)

SIR GOOD ONE

Submitted by rozer2012 on 27 July, 2011 - 03:29.

SIR GOOD ONE

Meego for Nokia E7-00 or N8-00

Submitted by Dragon Kao on 24 May, 2011 - 04:36.

as title , can we try install meego to e7 , n8 , c7 , x7 , e6 ....., if we can how to do ??

broadcom wirless

Submitted by kgas on 21 May, 2011 - 09:05.

I tried MeeGo after a long time. Interface is good. The one thing it still blocks to install in my dell mini 9 netbook is broadcom wireless. I read that in this realease broadcom wireless is supported. but with BCM4312 it still not working. I will try again. and post the results.

on Poulsbo/GMA500 netbook?

Submitted by Manish Jhawar on 19 May, 2011 - 19:35.
Hi, I own an Acer Aspire One 751h netbook with the Intel GMA500 "Poulsbo" graphics. Should I expect this release to work on this netbook OOB? If no, are there any workarounds or anything on the roadmap? Thanks in advance for answering :)

GMA500

Submitted by Thomas on 19 May, 2011 - 21:37.

I don't know if GMA500 is in by default, but I've read about several people who used GMA500 drivers together with the 1.2 development code. So if not full drivers OOtB then probably relatively easy to add.

gma500 wanted here too please

Submitted by speculatrix on 20 May, 2011 - 05:22.

I've an O2 joggler (made by OpenPeak), which is a GMA500-based touchscreen computer disguised as a picture frame, and I too would like to try meego on it.

try the developer edition

Submitted by Ross Kendall on 19 May, 2011 - 16:53.

If you are looking for something to install on your N900 it is probably best to try the developer edition 'DE'. It has not quite had a final 1.2 release just yet, but hopefully it won't be long.
http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/N900/DeveloperEdition

MeeGo for N900

Submitted by Jukka Eklund on 19 May, 2011 - 20:12.

Thanks for the mention Ross! Indeed we are targeting to have a release of N900 DevEdition available for the Conference, and it is built on top of final MeeGo 1.2. But it doesn't stop there, as there seems to be community interest it will continue evolving.

You can find "vanilla" MeeGo 1.2 images here, also for N900: http://repo.meego.com/MeeGo/builds/stable/1.2.0.90/1.2.0.90.0.20110517.1.... But like you said for N900, the DevEdition might be interesting since it has additional applications, contributions and fixes. You can find the main wiki page now at: http://wiki.meego.com/N900.

I will be at the Conference as well, and hoping to have good discussions around this topic! My presentation is here: http://sf2011.meego.com/program/sessions/meego-12-developer-edition-noki...

Jukka

MeeGo for N900

Submitted by Jukka Eklund on 23 May, 2011 - 08:31.

Answering to myself here, if you are interested in MeeGo running on N900 you should check this out: http://wiki.meego.com/N900.

Kudos!

Submitted by fowe on 19 May, 2011 - 14:34.

Big Kudos to the MeeGo team. I really appreciate the development team's undaunted effort to push MeeGo to its limits and full capability. Many thanks to Intel and all the volunteers.

Best Regards
Adeyemi Fowe

Great!

Submitted by Ross Kendall on 19 May, 2011 - 11:32.

Thanks to all who have been working hard to keep Meego moving forward and make this release possible. I'm much looking forward to testing this out (on my N900) and trying out some of the great new app development technologies.

Cheers!

microSDHC card (which class?)

Submitted by MikeMeego on 4 June, 2011 - 12:12.

I bought a 16GB, class 4 and have read that it should be a class 6 minimum. Do you think its worthwhile buying a class 10 (like: the quicker the better) ? With my 16GB, class 4 I did not succeed at all and find the How-Tos pretty difficult.

Class 10 is known to have

Submitted by Jukka Eklund on 10 June, 2011 - 00:22.

Class 10 is known to have problems with N900. Class 6 is best, and class 4 might be ok. You should find good instructions here: http://wiki.meego.com/N900

Class 10 or class 6

Submitted by MikeMeego on 13 June, 2011 - 07:09.

Hi, while waiting for the final release I want to buy a microSDHC card class 10, but now I am unsure. I cannot find any reports about problems with class 10, especially here http://wiki.meego.com/N900. This is very important to me, please indicate exact report.

Class 10 problems

Submitted by Jukka Eklund on 13 June, 2011 - 08:54.

Hi,

you can find comments eg. here: http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/N900/Performance. ("With class 10 card image worked really unstable."). It's a known issue that some class 10 cards do not work with N900, you can find similar threads from maemo also eg. http://maemo.org/community/maemo-users/n900_microsd_card_i-o_errors_and_....

Based on available data and user feedback, class 6 is your best bet.

Thank you ...

Submitted by MikeMeego on 13 June, 2011 - 23:36.

... for your quick replay, I just could not find it.

MeeGo 1.2 Handset UX?

Submitted by Brian Stentzel on 19 May, 2011 - 14:34.
I too am anxiously awaiting the opportunity to put this on my N900 and give it a spin! But there doesn't seem to be a handset UX download available for the 1.2 release. Why, and when can we expect to see it?

Handset UX in N900

Submitted by Jukka Eklund on 19 May, 2011 - 20:10.

There are images available here: http://repo.meego.com/MeeGo/builds/stable/1.2.0.90/1.2.0.90.0.20110517.1..., also for N900. But in addition we have a developer release cooking, and you can find everything about it at: http://wiki.meego.com/N900.

I just tried to reply, but it

Submitted by Ross Kendall on 19 May, 2011 - 16:55.

I just tried to reply, but it didn't nest. see my more recent post