In Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress , Nokia and Intel had held a crowded joint conference to announce the confluence of open-source projects Moblin ( originally an OS based on Fedora Linux and promoted by Intel , then returned to the orbit of the Linux Foundation ) and Maemo ( platform developed by Nokia for its smartphones and Internet tablets based on Debian Linux) in the new operating system Meego.
But despite the crush of journalists and professionals , the presentation was very sparing of details and so we at Notebook Italy as foreign colleagues were left with an unsatisfied curiosity and many unspoken questions.