Here Meego Again: Halt the Nokia bashing for a sec folks

As has been said elsewhere, reports about the death of Meego , spawn of the coupling of the Linux based mobile Oses of Intel [Moblin] and Nokia's Maemo, have been greatly exaggerated peeps.

Today at Nokia's Connection Event in Singapore the company launched their much hinted at first Meego device, the Nokia N9, billed as the first full touch screen swipe phone. Not clear on what that means but it seems Nokia are intent on supporting and shipping out Meego devices after all.
The social networks were abuzz today with the news, with opinion split between those who thought Nokia was having Kalonzo moments [being confused, indecisive] and those who welcomed it.
Good things about the device are being heard from those who have handled it up close.
The phone, which boasts of among other features a 8 Mega pixel camera and Near Field Communications, has no front facing buttons. Instead whenever in an
application, you swipe from the edge of the screen to go back home.
Nokia also talked about a N950 tablet running Meego Harmattan, a success to brilliant Maemo running N900.

Nokia still has, much to my chagrin, plans to ship WP7 devices, a stupid move if you ask me.

How soon before we see the N9 and Meego, in Kenya? Well stayed tuned folks

From the whats-a-half-touch-screen phone department

Photo: Nokia.com

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Mageia 1 released: Fork of popular Mandriva distro announces first stable release.

From the distro-names-you-should-pronounce-carefully dept.

Mageia, began in September 2010 as a fork of Mandriva Linux, announced release 1.0 of the distro at around 1pm Nairobi Time Wednesday June 1st.

The new distro [yet to download it ourselves] continues in many of the traditions of Mandriva, a distro that's very popular in Kenya.
For instance Mageia which comes in 2 distinctive installation media DVD ISO and Dual-arch CD ISO and an installable live CD ISO, which
can be used to preview the
distribution and can also be used to install Mageia on your HDD uses the drakx installer. The new distro also employs the all too familiar urpmi as the default dependency resolver
used to install RPM
packages on the system as well as popular
drak tools such as
drakconf for the Mageia control center, the
drak3d tool to to configure 3D
desktop effects (e.g. Compiz)
rpmdrake and the userdrake tool for user administration.

Mageia 1 ships with Linux Kernel 2.6.38, KDE SC 4.6.3,GNOME 2.32, XFCE 4.8, LXDE, various other smaller and lightweight desktop environments such as Openbox,IceWM and
Fluxbox.

LibreOffice 3.3.2 and Calligra are included in the Mageaia repos bringing a full
suite of office applications to the distro as are Firefox 4.0.1 and Google Chromium 11.1. Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.10,
is available in the online
repositories.
Gimp 2.6.11, Inkscape 0.48.1 and Blender 2.49b are bundled with the distro for the creatively inclined.
On the VOIP front QuteCom a SIP softphone which
allows you to make free PC to PC video and voice calls, and
Ekiga,a tool to communicate with video and audio over the internet with support for both SIP and H323 protocol and is compatible.

Anjuta,Eclipse,Netbeans,
KDevelop are the IDEs of choice for the distro.


Version 4.0.6, of the
general-purpose full virtualizer VirtualBox is
available in the Mageia repositories as is WINE 1.3.20, is available
in the repositories.

The packages in Mageia exist in three
different repositories,
depending on what license each
package uses.

The Core repository made up of packages with free-open-source software, that is added by default

The Nonfree repository includes
packages that are free-of-charge
but contain closed-source
software (hence the Nonfree
name); such as nVidia and ATI
graphics cards proprietary drivers, Wi-Fi drivers that is enabled by default

The Tainted repository includes
packages under various licenses,
free and nonfree ones, that may infringe
patents and copyright laws in some
countries in such as
multimedia. Tainted media is added by default
but is completely opt-in.

Mageia is supported
by a not-for-profit organisation,
governed by a body of recognized
and elected contributors, and made
by 100+ people around the world.

Mageia ISOs are available
on the Mageia download page direct (ftp and http) and BitTorrent

Migration options from Mandriva Linux
2010.1 or 2010.2, are also available

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