Today we are announcing the project release of MeeGo v1.0. This release provides developers with a stable core foundation for application development and a rich user experience for Netbooks. The MeeGo Netbook user experience is the first to appear, with the development of the MeeGo Handset user experience moving to the open in June.

Releases are planned on a six month cadence. MeeGo v1.1 will be released in October and it will include support for touch-based devices, such as Handsets, Tablets, and In-Vehicle Infotainment systems. The development tree for MeeGo v1.1 is now open and we will start releasing various components in the v1.1 tree, including opening the development of the handset user experience in June.

We are now releasing the MeeGo API which includes Qt 4.6, the MeeGo SDK with an integrated application development environment, and various other operating system tools. Currently, the MeeGo SDK is focused on Netbooks, but the next version of the MeeGo SDK, an early developer release in June, will support touch-based devices, such as Handsets and Tablets.

The MeeGo Netbook User Experience includes:
Visually rich Netbook user experience, building on the latest open source technologies.
Instant access to your synchronized calendar, tasks, appointments, recently used files and real-time social networking updates through the home screen.
Aggregation of your social networking content. This allows you to see your social networking activities on one screen, easily interact with your friends, and update your status and site information.
For a fast and rich Internet experience the MeeGo Netbook user experience integrates Google Chrome or, if you prefer a fully open source browser solution, Google Chromium is also provided. Soon we will be releasing the MeeGo Handset user experience which will use the Fennec Mozilla Browser.
Easy to use applications for email, calendar and media player.
Highly optimized for power and performance.
Languages: Japanese, Korean, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Swedish, Polish, Finnish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, English, British English
The MeeGo v1.0 Core Software Platform Features include:
Kernel based on 2.6.33
DeviceKit and udev for interacting with hardware devices
Modern 2D / 3D graphics stack including Kernel Mode Setting, non-root X
Voice and data connectivity with Connman connection manager, Ofono telephony stack and BlueZ Bluetooth
Qt 4.6
Universal Plug and Play (gUPnP)
Media frameworks
Next generation file system BTRFS, as the default file system
The following MeeGo v1.0 images are available for download:
MeeGo v1.0 for Netbooks (includes the full MeeGo v1.0 Netbook user experience) supports Intel Atom-based Netbooks. More details can be found in the Netbook release notes.
MeeGo v1.0 core software platform for the Nokia N900 . More details can be found in the Core release notes.
Give us your feedback through comments on the MeeGo mailing lists, forums or by submitting bugs at http://bugs.meego.com. It’s with your input that we can further enhance MeeGo.

Many thanks to the Nokia MeeGo team, Intel MeeGo Team, Novell SuSE team, and of course the many contributors from the MeeGo community – and last but not least… all the contributions from the various upstream projects in freedesktop.org, x.org, kernel.org … please tell us there’s someone else to thank

Imad Sousou & Valtteri Halla
MeeGo Technical Steering Group

The MeeGo OS Base layer contains the Linux kernel and core services along with the Hardware Adaptation Software required to adapt MeeGo to support various hardware architectures.
The MeeGo OS Middleware layer provides a hardware and usage model independent API for building both native applications and web run time applications.
The MeeGo User Experience layer provides reference user experiences for multiple platform segments; the initial MeeGo release will contain reference user experiences for handhelds and netbooks and additional platform segments will be supported over time.

Each of the subsystems and functional blocks are described in the following sections. Note: Items marked with * are not included in the 3/31/2010 drop.

MeeGo OS Base
Hardware Adaptation Software
There are multiple software components that a hardware vendor must provide for MeeGo to run successfully on their platform architecture, including platform kernel drivers, core architecture patches, kernel configuration, X software patches and configuration, modem support, and hardware specific media components. You can learn more about the hardware enabling process here.

MeeGo Kernel
MeeGo uses a Linux kernel from kernel.org, with architecture specific configuration and patches (as needed). Drivers are provided for each supported platform.

MeeGo OS Middleware
Comms Services
The Comms Services subsystem provides services to manage voice and data connectivity for the platform. APIs are provided to manage cellular and IP voice and data connectivity across a range of communications technologies, including WiFi, 3G, WiMax, and Bluetooth.

Internet Services
The Internet Services subsystem includes services for rendering web content, providing web run time support, exchanging data with web services, and determining location.

Visual Services
The Visual Services subsystem provides the core 2D and 3D graphics capabilities for the platform, including support for rendering internationalized text and taking advantage of underlying hardware platform acceleration for graphics.

Media Services
The purpose of media services is to provide audio/video playback, streaming and imaging functionality to the system. In general, media services take care of the actual audio/video data handling (retrieval, demuxing, decoding and encoding, seeking, etc.).

Data Management
The Data Management subsystem provides services for extracting and managing file meta-data (for example to support extracting and searching metadata for media files), retrieving data about the device context (such as device position, cable status), and managing the set of installed packages on the device.

Device Services
The Device Services subsystem contains a set of services for managing device state, including everything that is needed to make a device safe to use for a consumer, and exchanging data with the device, sensor data extraction, overall system policy, device data synchronization, and device data backup and restore.

Personal Services
The Personal Services subsystem provides services for managing user data on the device, including personal information management (that is, calendar, contacts, tasks) and managing user accounts to enable single-sign-on for web services.

MeeGo Security Architecture
MeeGo uses a scalable security framework that provides security via role based access control that applies to a wide range of systems, from completely open systems to systems that need to be partially locked down. This is achieved by having a flexible and updatable policy that is enforced by key pieces in the software stack.

MeeGo UI Toolkit
The MeeGo UI toolkit is the primary toolkit for developing MeeGo applications and is based on Qt with specific enhancements and additions. GTK and Clutter are also included for application compatibility.

MeeGo Handheld UX
The MeeGo handheld UX provides a user experience for handheld devices, including the core system user interface and applications which are built on a handheld optimized UI framework. The user experience illustrates the capabilities of the platform and also provides a starting point for building a MeeGo handheld product.

MeeGo Netbook UX
The MeeGo netbook UX provides a user experience for netbook devices, including the core system user interface and applications, which are built on a netbook optimized UI framework. The user experience illustrates the capabilities of the platform and also provides a starting point for building a MeeGo netbook product.

This is where you will find all of the MeeGo projects. However, not all MeeGo content will be hosted here because a lot of MeeGo projects are upstream including the Linux kernel (kernel.org), freedesktop, and others.

The MeeGo Community can host projects here, too.

So check back soon. In the meantime, think about a project you might like to contribute to MeeGo.

MeeGo includes:

• Performance optimizations and features which enable rich computational and graphically oriented applications and connected services development
• No-compromise internet standards support delivering the best web experiences
• Easy to use, flexible and powerful UI/app development environment based on Qt
• Open source project organization managed by the Linux Foundation
• State of the Art Linux stack optimized for the size and capabilities of small footprint platforms and mobile devices, but delivering broad linux software application compatibility

MeeGo currently targets platforms such as netbooks/entry-level desktops, handheld computing and communications devices, in-vehicle infotainment devices, connected TVs, and media phones. All of these platforms have common user requirements in communications, application, and internet services in a portable or small form factor. The MeeGo project will continue to expand platform support as new features are incorporated and new form factors emerge in the market.

PLEASE BE NOTED: This site only introduce related information of the Meego Linux OS, is not the official site of the Meego Smart Phone Operating System.