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Maemo To Switch To Qt
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| As some had already anticipated when Nokia acquired Trolltech, the next
| version of the Maemo platform will have its application framework based on Qt
| instead of Gtk+. This news was announced at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit.
| While the switch to Qt may seem a major defeat for the GNOME community, this
| isn't exactly true, as many of the underlying technologies will still be
| GNOME-centric.
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http://www.osnews.com/story/21779/Maemo_To_Switch_To_Qt
The Open-PC Project Announced at GCDS 09
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| During the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Frank Karlitschek announced the
| open-pc initiative. The aim of this ambitious project is to cooperatively
| design a Free Software based computer by and for the community. Read on for
| more information about this initiative from the team.
|
| The project was initiated in response to the lack of quality in the Free
| Software-based hardware solutions currently on the market. As many reviewers
| and end-users have stated, the pre-installed software used by hardware
| vendors generated a bad image for Free Software with potentially interested
| end-users. Much of the software was buggy and not widely tested and device
| drivers were often unstable, non-free or not available at all.
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http://www.kdenews.org/2009/07/11/open-pc-project-announced-gcds-09
Recent:
Nokia's Maemo 'Harmattan' OS Snap Leaked
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| Nokia's Maemo is Linux-kernel based mobile OS meant for Nokia N810 tablet
| like devices and smartphones. According to MobileCrunch, the blue section the
| screenshot's background is the static on which the widgets float on a
| scrollable page.
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http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Nokias_Maemo_Harmattan_OS_Snaps_Leaked/551-102102-580.html
Mer: Remastering Maemo
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| Mer is an outgrowth of Nokia's Maemo environment, designed to flesh out the
| tablet-centric operating system into a full-fledged Linux distribution
| suitable for embedded and desktop systems of all description. The project's
| genesis was an effort to back port the upcoming Maemo 5.0 release to
| no-longer-supported Nokia N800 and N810 tablets, but it has subsequently
| evolved to run on BeagleBoards, embedded navigation devices like the Pocket
| LOOX, and standard x86 hardware.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/322693/
Related:
Nokia’s Maemo 5 open-source Linux OS promises faster, more powerful Internet
Tablets
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| Nokia’s little Linux-based, open-source darling has really blossomed into one
| fine looking platform. And, as the Maemo platform that powers Nokia Internet
| Tablets, like the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet, again grows too big for its
| britches, Nokia will have to release newer versions of the Linux-based mobile
| platform.
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http://www.intomobile.com/2008/09/17/nokias-maemo-5-open-source-linux-os-promises-faster-more-powerful-internet-tablets.html
Nokia looks beyond Symbian to Linux
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| With a 47.9 percent stake in Symbian, the leading mobile platform that it
| co-founded in 1998 and which today powers some 206 million mobile phones,
| Nokia has long championed it at the expense of rival platforms such as Linux.
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| No longer.
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| The mobile-phone maker is increasingly selecting Linux for Internet-enabled
| mobile devices, with its CFO declaring of Linux, "It's going to be terribly
| important."
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9949262-7.html
Symbian extends collaboration offer to Google, possibly Android
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| "We already work together and so whatever collaboration, if there is an
| opportunity, we will be happy to collaborate with them," Symbian chief
| executive Nigel Clifford told reporters in Tokyo. "And that could be on the
| application level or that could be on the more fundamental operating system
| level."
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http://www.intomobile.com/2008/07/16/symbian-extends-collaboration-offer-to-google-possibly-android.html
Nokia and the battle for open source's soul
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| The Finnish giant had, until now, kept out of the major alliances being
| formed in the mobile Linux space — the LiMo Foundation and the Google-led
| Open Handset Alliance (OHA) — because it could afford to. Enjoying 40 percent
| of the global handset market, and holding the largest stake in the
| market-leading Symbian platform, Nokia did not have to be quite as reactive
| as other manufacturers when it came to the open-source revolution. It was,
| however, inevitable that it would join the revolution and, after a suitable
| period of observer status, it chose the right time to do so.
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http://www.itvoir.com/portal/boxx/modules/blogs/Blog-Detail.asp?BlogID=1888
Nokia embraces Ubuntu OS
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| Nokia’s Internet Tablet devices are set to get a port of the Linux operating
| system Ubuntu, following the release of the latest ‘Hardy Heron’ v8.04 of
| Ubuntu this week.
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http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/linux/nokia-embraces-ubuntu-os--330238
Nokia does not get it
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| You better start playing by the rules because else the other companies might
| do it faster than Nokia and you will lose the opportunity. Oh: And just as a
| remind: when you go open source, you must play by the rules by honoring the
| license of the software.
|
| Really, it’s sad to listen to things like this from someone controlling the
| company who owns Trolltech I am sure that the vice-president of companies
| like Red Hat wouldn’t say nonsense like the above. But it’s no surprise
| coming from someone in a company that seems to be absolutely in favor of
| software patents in Europe according to FFII.
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http://edulix.wordpress.com/2008/06/14/nokia-does-not-get-it/
Ari Jaaksi of Nokia Wants to Educate the Linux Community
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| But perhaps the community has some education for Jaaksi and Nokia. Jaaksi
| hosted me at a Nokia dinner in 2000, he's a nice guy and has been interested
| in Linux for a long time. But Nokia's barking up the wrong tree this time,
| because Nokia can do everything it wants with DRM, IPR, and SIM locks without
| bothering the Linux developers about it - and both Nokia and the Linux
| developers will like it better that way. It's surprising that Nokia doesn't
| understand that at this late date.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2008/6/11/43198
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