A post after a long time now! The last I wrote for my blog was in April. And it is August now. Probably one of the longest breaks in my blog writing career. But I was busy with work as usual. Then with my vacation and then with my new passion in Maemo. In case you are not aware, Maemo is the OS running on Nokia’s tablets namely the N800s, N810s and N900s. I recently purchased an N900 and am a lot involved with the upcoming MeeGo platform. MeeGo is a conglomeration between Nokia’s Maemo and Intel’s Moblin (as well as Linux Foundation of course). Intel had given away Moblin to Linux Foundation by the beginning of this year. Maemo was not able to lure application developers and did not contribute that much to Nokia’s app store (OVI) plans. So I think it was a good move to get together with Intel and create MeeGo isntead. I personally though would have loved if they didn’t create a new distribution and instead optimized something already existing (Linaro definitely was announced a bit late though). Some decisions of MeeGo running an RPM based packaging policy also puts a kind of hurdle for Debian loyalists like me. But anyways, for the moment it is Maemo 5 (also known as Fremantle) running on my N900 which has a deb packaging policy and which is what I am really familiar with.