Nokia N900 Getting Dual Boot and Will be the First to Get MeeGo – Software Release in mid-November?
Wow, we have a shocker for you this morning! The Nokia N900 will receive a new firmware in the near future that will enable it to dual boot into MeeGo! This was today confirmed on the official MeeGo blog by Harri Hakulinen, Team Leader for MeeGo for the N900 project. He stated that firmware update PR1.3 for the N900 should be released soon, and that it will bring dual booting support for the N900.
On the Maemo side, there have been interesting, supporting developments going on, as well. The PR 1.3 update is quite close now, and with that you can easily dual boot between Maemo and Meego on your N900. There is also a possibility of developing applications supporting both operating systems, based on Qt and Qt Mobility APIs on the Maemo side. It means that you can develop once in PC with Qt Creator, and test your applications on both Maemo and MeeGo, directly on your N900 device!
And the second thing that interests even more, is the fact that he gave us a clue that MeeGo for the N900 could be released at the MeeGo Conference, in Dublin, Ireland on November 15-17th, 2010.
At the same time, development of the MeeGo 1.2 release has already started. On N900 side, we will continue by integrating some interesting stuff from the latest Nokia and development repositories, including, SGX drivers, camera stack, and accelerated video decoders. We are trying to keep the 1.2 version as usable as possible, but during development, some images will work better than others, as usual.
Also, keep in mind the MeeGo conference in Dublin in mid-November. As you can see from the title of my talk, I am expecting a bright future for MeeGo on N900!
See you there, with MeeGo on N900,
Harri
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