How to Dual Boot Nokia N900 with Maemo & Meego

With the new operating system version of the mobile system MeeGo 1.1 there is for hobbyists on the Nokia N900 in the next round. For this version, Maemo operating system on the device are dual-booting the extradition together. The new version of the smartphone operating system, Intel and Nokia together Meego take the fight with Google (Android) and Apple (Ios) on. According to Nokia the final version will be published in October. Meego 1.1 might be for the developers, a similar quantum leap, as for the Google Android version 1.6. The primary goal of the new Meego version was to give the app developers a more stable and more mature environment for the development of additional tools. In order to quickly demonstrate a finished version, Nokia and Intel have currently stopped implementing new features, instead it is working hard to optimize the existing functions and features, and the user interface should be simplified and improved.

Special added value is there for developers on a N900 smartphones from Nokia, this can according to Nokia to use the phone as a dual boot device - so the user can choose between Meego 1.1 and older software Maemo, from this is the current Meego version emerged. End customers, contrary to initial reports do not resort to the dual boot function. On the Maemo side, there have been interesting, supporting developments going on, as well. The PR 1.3 update is quite close now, and with that you can easily dual boot between Maemo and Meego on your N900. There is therefore a Possibility of developing applications supporting both operating systems, based on Qt and Qt APIs Mobility on the Maemo side. It means that device you-can develop once in PC with Qt Creator, and test your applications on both Maemo and MeeGo, directly on your N900.

Thanks to dual-boot with MeeGo and Maemo, the user can consider the operating systems with which he prefers. News about it, to whether it should be apps that run on both Maemo and with MeeGo. Currently it is possible to download a developer MeeGo image and install it. But: The user should be sure to know what he is doing, through such interventions usually disappears system to ensure the device and something goes wrong, it has sent to the user. Even more fundamentally Cromarty warns against MeeGo to install that, although the version we bring each week to date, but there could be significant problems with the installation, because it is far from just a work-in-progress version. Therefore, ideally, present a test unit for this installation, otherwise recommends Cromarty, test all phone functions regularly.

This time it comes to dual boot between Maemo and Meego. As we know, the N900 runs Maemo operating system base, with the passage of time blog Meego boys we gave the nice news that your operating system could run this legendary phone. However, as Maemo mobile OS is an incredible and Meego has shown that it is, the next update of firmware 1.3 will allow dual boot between two operating systems.

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