MeeGo News

As promised, the development release of the open-source components in the MeeGo stack has been released with three images that developers can start to test with. N900 owners are excited if the ‘tweets’ are anything to go by but there’s an Intel Atom build for netbooks and a Moorestown build for smartphone too.

Don’t get too excited just yet as this is really a first attempt at combining the distributions. Following this the teams will feed in the ‘User Experiences’ for the various target markets of Netbooks, Handhelds, connected TV’s and connected automobiles.

In a blog entry at Meego.org Imad Sousou of the stearing group writes:

“What are we opening? The MeeGo distribution infrastructure and the operating system base from the Linux kernel to the OS infrastructure up to the middleware layer.”

“The images available today are: Intel Atom-based netbooks, ARM-based Nokia N900, and Intel Atom-based handset (Moorestown). These images can be downloaded from http://meego.com/downloads”

It’s interesting to see an Intel Morrestown build in the mix there. With a bit of investigative work, someone should be able to find out exactly what the Aava reference design is capable of before the platform launches later this quarter (Q2 2010) If the GPU is, as expected, a GMA500, this build may also work on Menlow-based MIDs and UMPCs.

More information on the status should be available in the 2nd TSG meeting that is happening this evening. We’ll update you on that in a later post,