MeeGo on non-SSSE3 x86 Hardware
SSSE3 has long been a sticking point in the hardware requirements for both MeeGo, and Moblin before it, given Intel's commercial requirements for the platform. The choice, for performance reasons, limits users to fairly recent hardware. As many computers from before the advent of SSSE3 are more than capable of handling MeeGo, a concerned group of community members have decided to scratch the itch and improve MeeGo's support for non-SSSE3 hardware (or remove its dependency on SSSE3 support, as it were). In announcing the effort, Martin Brook said, If you can help in any way or have any comments please add your meego The defensiveness which has previously met questions around non-SSSE3 support (sometimes vaguely called "generic i686") has been less on show, however it still took a while for the thread to move to a tone of "we'd love to run on as much as possible, but haven't got the resource, time or infrastructure. If you want to help, start with X, Y & Z".
Small update on status of MeeGo-Harmattan (and its N900 "Hacker Edition")
Quim Gil has posted a status update for the MeeGo-Harmattan for N900 project: Status update: this project is on hold until a first release of MeeGo-Harmattan (let me insist: provisional name) is published. We are working on the fixes required for this first release to go out: MeeGo Handset unstable releases @ meego.com go first. It would be confusing and unfair if a MeeGo-Harmattan SDK release would include components that are meant to be in MeeGo but we haven't opened them yet. We are still opening components and integrating them to MeeGo almost on a weekly basis. The "based on MeeGo" also needs to be clear and in line with the MeeGo project and the Linux Foundation, owner of the MeeGo trademark. Having a first release ignoring this point would be also confusing and unfair. This step depends on the definition of the MeeGo Compliance, which is still a work-in-progress. You will hear more about MeeGo-Harmattan unstable releases probably when these points are in a mature/done state. This means progress on the "Hacker Edition" project will likely be delayed at least until the Harmattan device gets close to release.