MeeGo
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MeeGo's netbook user interface
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| Developer | Nokia, The Linux Foundation |
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| OS family | Linux |
| Working state | Terminated in favor of Tizen. Forked to create Mer. |
| Source model | Open source |
| Initial release | 26 May 2010 |
| Latest release | 1.2.0.10 / 12 July 2012 |
| Marketing target | Mobile |
| Package manager | RPM Package Manager |
| Platforms | ARM and x86 |
| Kernel type | Monolithic (Linux kernel) |
| Default user interface | Several GUIs, see below |
| License | Various, see below |
| Official website | meego |
MeeGo was a Linux distribution hosted by the Linux Foundation, using source code from the operating systems Moblin (produced by Intel) and Maemo (produced by Nokia). Primarily targeted at mobile devices and information appliances in the consumer electronics market, MeeGo was designed to act as an operating system for hardware platforms such as netbooks, entry-level desktops, nettops, tablet computers, mobile computing and communications devices, in-vehicle infotainment devices, SmartTV / ConnectedTV, IPTV-boxes, smart phones, and other embedded systems.
The Linux Foundation canceled MeeGo in September 2011 in favor of Tizen. A Finnish start-up, Jolla, picked up MeeGo’s community-driven successor Mer to develop a new operating system: Sailfish OS, and launched Jolla Phone smartphone at the end of 2013. All development of MeeGo and its supporting hardware have ceased.
MeeGo T01 was first announced at Mobile World Congress in February 2010 by Intel and Nokia in a joint press conference. The stated aim is to merge the efforts of Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo former projects into one new common project that would drive a broad third party application ecosystem. According to Intel, MeeGo was developed because Microsoft did not offer comprehensive Windows 7 support for the Atom processor. On February 16, 2010 a tech talk notice was posted about the former Maemo development project founded in 2009 and code named Harmattan, that originally slated to become Maemo 6. Those notice stated that Harmattan is now considered to be a MeeGo instance (though not a MeeGo product), and Nokia is giving up the Maemo branding for Harmattan on the Nokia N9 and beyond. (Any previous Maemo versions up to Maemo 5, a.k.a. Fremantle, will still be referred to as Maemo.) In addition it was made clear that only the naming was given up whilst development on that Harmattan will continue so that any schedules will be met.
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