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Since the N900 doesn't even have the correct hardware to run Meego, I don't see how they could possibly claim that.

What makes you think that?

MeeGo Hardware adaptation project for the N900 - Nokia as founding member of MeeGo project is using N900 as the ARM reference platform of MeeGo at the moment. This means that we have an active project that focuses to make a MeeGo hardware adaptation for the N900. The goal of the project is thus to open as much N900 specific drivers as possible in MeeGo scope.

http://wiki.meego.com/Meegodict

As I understand it the drivers/hardware support of Meego are being developed for the N900, since it's the most suitable ARM device available.
There's already a Meego alpha available for the N900, but there's no UI (just a shell).
If you look at this diagram, it looks like only the OS-level components are being implemented by Nokia for the N900.

Since the N900 doesn't even have the correct hardware to run Meego, I don't see how they could possibly claim that.

What makes you think that?

MeeGo Hardware adaptation project for the N900 - Nokia as founding member of MeeGo project is using N900 as the ARM reference platform of MeeGo at the moment. This means that we have an active project that focuses to make a MeeGo hardware adaptation for the N900. The goal of the project is thus to open as much N900 specific drivers as possible in MeeGo scope.

http://wiki.meego.com/Meegodict

As I understand it the drivers/hardware support of Meego are being developed for the N900, since it's the most suitable ARM device available.
There's already a Meego alpha available for the N900, but there's no UI (just a shell).
If you look at this diagram, it looks like only the OS-level components are being implemented by Nokia for the N900.

MeeGo uses X11, it seems.

Nokia has Meego, a fusion of the Debian-based mobile OS Maemo (Nokia) and the instant-on OS Moblin (Intel). It's quite new, and I haven't seen any devices with it yet, but it certainly looks promising. That said, Nokia is not dumping Symbian, but it is dumping the old interface that is s60, to be replaced with Symbian^4 (Whatever that means) which has a nice redesigned interface. A step in the right direction in any case.

So here's a little more background for those who haven't followed development of it closely:

MeeGo is the arranged marriage of Intel's Moblin + Nokia's Maemo.

MeeGo is still under heavy development, and although source and builds are available, everything is still experimental.

The steering group is "planning [a] release of MeeGo version 1 in the second quarter of 2010", according to the FAQ. It'll be here soon; don't start making plans to run it as your daily OS until v1.0 is actually released.

To give a taste of how raw development of the OS is right now, even basic tutorials on how to write a "Hello, World" application aren't useful to the community yet as most tutorials depend upon the MeeGo SDK, a component that hasn't yet been released by Intel.

But what you care about most is: "Will it run on my hardware?"

The best place to determine that is on the Devices page on the MeeGo Wiki. If you find that you can run the current development images on a different piece of hardware, please make a note of it on that page.

So here's a little more background for those who haven't followed development of it closely:

MeeGo is the arranged marriage of Intel's Moblin + Nokia's Maemo.

MeeGo is still under heavy development, and although source and builds are available, everything is still experimental.

The steering group is "planning [a] release of MeeGo version 1 in the second quarter of 2010", according to the FAQ. It'll be here soon; don't start making plans to run it as your daily OS until v1.0 is actually released.

To give a taste of how raw development of the OS is right now, even basic tutorials on how to write a "Hello, World" application aren't useful to the community yet as most tutorials depend upon the MeeGo SDK, a component that hasn't yet been released by Intel.

But what you care about most is: "Will it run on my hardware?"

The best place to determine that is on the Devices page on the MeeGo Wiki. If you find that you can run the current development images on a different piece of hardware, please make a note of it on that page.

So here's a little more background for those who haven't followed development of it closely:

MeeGo is the arranged marriage of Intel's Moblin + Nokia's Maemo.

MeeGo is still under heavy development, and although source and builds are available, everything is still experimental.

The steering group is "planning [a] release of MeeGo version 1 in the second quarter of 2010", according to the FAQ. It'll be here soon; don't start making plans to run it as your daily OS until v1.0 is actually released.

To give a taste of how raw development of the OS is right now, even basic tutorials on how to write a "Hello, World" application aren't useful to the community yet as most tutorials depend upon the MeeGo SDK, a component that hasn't yet been released by Intel.

But what you care about most is: "Will it run on my hardware?"

The best place to determine that is on the Devices page on the MeeGo Wiki. If you find that you can run the current development images on a different piece of hardware, please make a note of it on that page.

Don't forget http://meego.com/

Moblin is just as dead as Maemo. They're both becoming MeeGo. Moblin and Maemo were very similar anyway. The first release of MeeGo will target Intel Atom systems and the Nokia N900:

http://meego.com/community/blogs/valhalla/2010/towards-day-one

Moblin is just as dead as Maemo. They're both becoming MeeGo. Moblin and Maemo were very similar anyway. The first release of MeeGo will target Intel Atom systems and the Nokia N900:

http://meego.com/community/blogs/valhalla/2010/towards-day-one

This will change. Maemo and Moblin are in the progressed of being merged into one distribution called MeeGo. MeeGo is backed by Nokia and Intel and will be built for x86 and ARM. Any device manufacturer is free to use MeeGo as the operating system for their device. You'll start to see many MeeGo devices in a relatively short period of time. See more at http://meego.com/.

Regardless, the operating system is in some ways less important than the SDK. Using Nokia's Qt based SDK you'll be able to target Maemo 5, MeeGo, and Symbian handsets. That will effectively be 45% of all smartphones.

RPM, says the FAQ