[Q] MeeGo Port?

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While this might not be possible with a Droid Eris, I would like to suggest possibly looking into a MeeGo OS port for Android Phones. http://meego.com/

I have no experience in coding, but am a heavy design fanatic. I know Photoshop like the back of my hand, to sum it all up. If anyone is interested in working on a project like this, MeeGo Day 1 has launched: meaning that the source code for mobile devices is now available. There are pre-compiled binaries available on the meego home page.

It's important to note that MeeGo is meant for Moorestown CPU devices at this time, so it will DEFINITELY not run on a Droid Eris at this time, or any other android devices.

I think that with some tweaks to the source however, it can be compiled into a binary to run off of android phones. I might be wrong in assuming this, but I believe it would be possible; especially on high end phones such as the Droid X, Samsung Galaxy S, the Evo 4G, or Droid 2.

As a owner of an eris though, I would think that maybe, with a lot of community support, and a lot of developers, we could get this to work. MeeGo has been nothing but a dream OS on my netbook; running the mobile version would be fantastic.

I'm posting this in Eris General as opposed to Android General, because I want to see what people think of the idea: users and developers. Vote on the poll if you think it's worth a shot from the development side of things.

ARM-Based Image creation.

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Scratch what I said in the post above, there IS an ARM build available. It is important to note that it is meant for the N900, and that the N900 has a processor speed of around 600 MHz. Seeing as the Eris is overclockable to about 806 (stable), I think this would run rather well on an Eris.

Here are instructions for compiling an image for the N900:

http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/Creating_A..._Image_Creator

So, what do you guys think? I don't think we have to worry about performance as much as usability at this time. MeeGo Mobile still isn't complete, and is still in development stages. Also, allowing another OS to install versus Android would be mighty hard...

I think this is a great idea as MeeGo is looking like it could be great. I do hope that when it is a more mature OS we will see some people porting to devices like the Nexus One or other higher end devices. But since it runs on the N900 I suppose any even mid range device would work. I am surprised nobody has commented on this yet.

I'm surprised too I completely forgot I even posted this! We were discussing in Android Development, someone brought up the possibility of moving Ubuntu or another linux distro onto the Eris.

We discovered that MeeGo is optimized for both ARM and Moorestown devices, specifically the ARM devices are: the N900, and The N8xO devices.

The most important thing here, is that the N8xO devices use almost the exact same processor as the Eris, making optimization something that would be pretty easy. I'm by no means a coder, I've just been watching MeeGo develop for some time, and interest in porting Linux to Android phones has been spiking.

I currently run MeeGo on my sister's netbook, and it's a dream. It's wicked fast on that little netbook.

Originally Posted by ForwardTwo

I'm surprised too I completely forgot I even posted this! We were discussing in Android Development, someone brought up the possibility of moving Ubuntu or another linux distro onto the Eris.

We discovered that MeeGo is optimized for both ARM and Moorestown devices, specifically the ARM devices are: the N900, and The N8xO devices.

The most important thing here, is that the N8xO devices use almost the exact same processor as the Eris, making optimization something that would be pretty easy. I'm by no means a coder, I've just been watching MeeGo develop for some time, and interest in porting Linux to Android phones has been spiking.

I currently run MeeGo on my sister's netbook, and it's a dream. It's wicked fast on that little netbook.

I also tried MeeGo out on a netbook, works very well but is almost exactly what Moblin was so really not much has been done to that. But this is very odd and still no other comments and I am no coder either, I wish I was lol.
I have seen Debian and Ubuntu run on the N1 as well.