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Idea #24894: Support Maemo in Ubuntu One

Written by connel the 21 May 10 at 21:13. Category: Internet & Networking. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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There are already plans afoot to support Android in Ubuntu One:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/specs/UbuntuOneForAndroid
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GSoC/2010/MichalKarnicki/

I believe that since Maemo is also based on Linux (Debian to be precise) it should also be supported by Ubuntu One.

Please also follow the bug report on launchpad here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntuone-client/+bug/512052

And there is also a discussion about it on the Maemo forums here:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=33537


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Solution #1: Support Maemo (runs on devices like the N900)
Written by connel the 21 May 10 at 21:13.
Being able to sync all my stuff to my phone and computer would be AMAZING.

Maemo has Firefox and Tomboy already so syncing at least some things should be relatively easy.

I also see supporting mobile devices as a great way to get one over Dropbox ;)

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Auzy wrote on the 22 May 10 at 11:05
Maemo is obsoleted by Meego now..

ketilwaa wrote on the 22 May 10 at 14:09
No it isn't. Where are the Meego devices? Maemo is still under development, and considering the similarities that there (probably) will be, porting from Maemo to Meego should not be a problem. At this point, 3rd party development for Meego should probably be focused on the upcoming upgrade of Maemo as a foundation.

connel wrote on the 22 May 10 at 15:18
Meego will be replaced by meago on all Nokia devices but not until later next year. Meego is based on open suse and uses rpm rather than deb. but porting an app from debian to suse should not be too difficult should it as its still linux?

Auzy wrote on the 22 May 10 at 15:20
It might be still under development, but Meego is the replacement for both (and as per http://jaaksi.blogspot.com/2010/02/meego-time.html, consider Meego to be Maemo6).

They are compatible apparently, but the future seems to be Meego.. Anyway, can't hurt to support both, but honestly, I'm more interested in Android at this time.

Darwin Survivor (Brainstorm moderator) wrote on the 25 May 10 at 00:30
@Auzy unless meego will run on existing devices as well (N770/N800/N810 do NOT have graphics acceleration), then no, maemo is not obsolete.

connel wrote on the 25 May 10 at 11:19
"One other important fact unveiled in the said post regards the Nokia N900 device and the MeeGo platform. It seems that the OS won't be officially released for N900, even if users might have been expecting for that to happen. The phone is being used in the project for testing purposes, but things won't move forward, it seems, mainly due to the experience that users would receive from the combination between the two. However, Nokia remains committed to supporting the Maemo platform, and the new update is proof of that."

It seems Nokia will not be updating existing devices to Maemo after all. I don't see how users wont be able to update the device themselves unofficially though.

Either way Maemo is still definitely worth supporting :)

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Nokia-N900-to-Taste-Firmware-1-2-Tomorrow-142920 .shtml

Auzy wrote on the 25 May 10 at 16:39
Yeah.. I saw the post.. So it still makes sense to support Maemo, but when Meego comes out, that should take precedence.

connel wrote on the 25 May 10 at 21:18
@Auzy

Yeah totally agree. Pretty much all the N900 users will manually install Meego on their devices anyway regardless of whether or not they officially release it or not.

And anyway I thought there would not be any Meego devices until at least next year?

Darwin Survivor (Brainstorm moderator) wrote on the 26 May 10 at 02:36
@connel
The N900 has a hardware accelleration (which the newest mameo requires), so that I don't see it even being possible to backport it. I own an N810 myself and was looking forward to the new version, but it obviously isn't going to happen.

As far as I know the applications are almost identical on the 2 versions, so compatibility (with ubuntu) shouldn't big a big problem.


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