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| - | Running MeeGo in a virtual environment is not recommended for most end users. The best way to use MeeGo without disrupting your existing operating system is to run it directly off of a thumb drive | + | Running MeeGo in a virtual environment is not recommended for most end users. The best way to use MeeGo without disrupting your existing operating system is to [http://meego.com/devices/netbook/installing-meego-your-netbook run it directly off of a thumb drive]. |
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MeeGo 1.0 Currently Requires:
Note: Additional hardware configurations will be supported in updates / future revisions.
We have a list of netbooks that are officially supported and that other users have been testing.
We recommend that you fully test MeeGo without disrupting your existing operating system by running it directly off of a thumb as described in the install guide.
Note: You may still find that some wireless cards or other components in your netbook are not be supported in this 1.0 release. Please report any issues in the netbook section of the forum, and we'll try to get them fixed as soon as possible.
For users
You will need to burn the image (you can't just drag and drop it) onto a USB flash drive. We have some technical installation instructions now. Note: Noel is writing some additional user instructions for less technical users.
For developers
We have pages with installation instructions and complete instructions for building images.
Troubleshooting
Please visit the Netbook install troubleshooting section for additional information.
For users:
Running MeeGo in a virtual environment is not recommended for most end users. The best way to use MeeGo without disrupting your existing operating system is to run it directly off of a thumb drive.
For developers:
The netbook UX images are not designed to work on virtual machines, as 3D acceleration support is not available. However, the MeeGo SDK includes a chroot + Xephyr server environment which _can_ be used to run the MeeGo UX in a non-netbook environment (with 3D acceleration):
http://wiki.meego.com/Getting_started_with_the_MeeGo_SDK_for_Linux
However, you'll still need to be using a modern Linux distro on hardware which supports MeeGo, namely:
For users
For most people, this should just work; however, certain wireless drivers are not available in open source Linux distributions. You should test that your wireless card is supported before installing MeeGo by running it directly off of a thumb <insert link to instructions here>.
For developers
In many cases, you can package a driver and install it on MeeGo.
If you have a Broadcom wireless driver, Slaine has kindly created an rpm of the Broadcom drivers that you can install on MeeGo.
For Developers
Caveat: Work in process instructions for installing codecs can be found in the forum, but they involve compiling the codecs, and it is not a simple process.
Sure. Instructions for installing Skype can be found in the forum.
We don't have official instructions for this yet, but several people have been able to get this working:
Possible questions: