MeeGo is a discontinuous Linux distribution hosted by the Linux Foundation, using source code from operating systems Moblin (produced by Intel) and Maemo (produced by Nokia). MeeGo was designed to act as an operating system for hardware platforms such as netbooks, entry level desktops, nettops, tablet computers, mobile computing and communications devices, information systems and in-vehicle entertainment devices, SmartTV / ConnectedTV, IPTV boxes, smart phones and other embedded systems.
Nokia wanted to make MeeGo its main operating system for smartphones in 2010, but after a change of address stopped in February 2011, leaving Intel alone in the project. The Linux Foundation canceled MeeGo in September 2011 in favor of Tizen, which Intel then joined in collaboration with Samsung. A year later a successor named Mer was formed. Jolla, a Finnish start-up, picked Mer to develop a new operating system: Sailfish OS, and launched the Jolla Phone smartphone in late 2013. It also developed another Mer derivative called Nemo Mobile.
MeeGo intends to run on a variety of hardware platforms including hand-helds, in-car devices, netbooks and televisions. All platforms share the MeeGo core, with different layers of "User Experience" ("UX") for each type of device. MeeGo is designed by combining the best of Moblin from Intel-based Fedora and Maemo-based Debian from Nokia. When it was first announced, then-president and CEO Olli-Pekka Kallsvuo said that MeeGo would create an ecosystem, which is the best among other operating systems and will represent players from different countries.