Last week Nokia and Intel announced that their mobile/umpc linux distributions would merge to become MeeGo.
Intel’s Moblin distribution will form the base operating system, and Nokia’s QT application framework (which was to be part of the upcoming Maemo 6 release) will form the UI. Nokia are also hoping to transition Maemo’s strong community of users and developers towards this new OS.
So what are the benefits of this merge? It is understood that Moblin has better development build tools than Maemo, and Nokia’s QT framework will mean easy cross-platform development for a wide range of platforms (Linux, Symbian, Windows, Mac).
It is still early days, and lots more details will be decided / announced over the coming weeks – we’ll make sure to report any news here on MeeGo Review, so check back soon! In the mean-time, check out the MeeGo website.