MeeGo has announced the release of the first version of MeeGo. The MeeGo Netbook user experience is understandably for the netbooks and will provide a stable environment for developers to develop apps as well as give a taste of the rich user experience on netbooks. The current build includes features like:
– 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 Core Software Platform is also released for Nokia N900 that features:
– 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
MeeGo also announced the development release cycle, which will be every six months. However, MeeGo v1.1 will be released in October that will include support for touch-based devices.
To download the Netbook user experience image, click here or click here to download the image for N900.
[Via MeeGo]
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