MeeGo 1.1 Released

afraser2k · 29 Oct 2010 at 11:54

Stuck this on my Advent 4211-C (MSI Wind U100 clone) and now have wi-fi working so can finally check this out properly. Anyone else using or interested in it? Nice interface for small screens though seems to only support Atom and ARM netbooks unfortunately.

Still looking through a few things but so far liking the gui over the new Ubuntu netbook design.

vidda · 31 Oct 2010 at 16:57

I tried it when it was still Moblin, it was really buggy but I thought the UI was pretty nice and refreshing. Seemed pretty nippy too (especially the bootup time).

My major concern was that it was hard to get apps that worked natively. This probably has changed with that Garage (appstore) they have? What apps are in there? VLC or anything?

afraser2k · 4 Nov 2010 at 09:59

Managed to have a proper look at this yesterday and it appears that the packages on offer are very limited on the main application installer. However, the community on the MeeGo forums run a repository though it's not updated for 1.1 yet (1.0 has VLC etc in it).

Other applications should be able to be compiled from source though I've not looked into adding them yet or to the menu setup.

So at the moment it looks like it's early days for the support of various applications so might take another look when the community repo is updated.

deadite66 · 6 Nov 2010 at 14:26

installed this on my MSI wind yesterday, dual booting with win7.
much better interface than ubuntu unity interface imo.

any 3rd party repos?, would like to have xvid and h.264.