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Feed What is new and important according to the maemo community.Take me to your leader - Questions for Quim
I recently talked with Quim Gil, Marketing Manager, Nokia. I thought I would share my Q/A with Quim’s permission. [Penguinbait] As someone who did not go to the Maemo Summit and who is perhaps too busy or too lazy to read through all the conjecture and hype to see what is real. I have some specific questions [...]
Nokia´s Contribution to the Linux Kernel
Lately there has been a lot of talk about commercial contributions to the Linux kernel, specifically from distribution vendors.
At the Linux Plumbers Conference in Portland, Oregon, Greg Kroah-Hartman of Linux kernel fame recently took a swipe, specifically at Canonical (blog post - google video). Now this may (or may not) come as a shock to you but the most popular Linux distribution (number 1 at distrowatch for many a moon) doesn't seem to 'give back'. In retaliation people have come out to defend Ubuntu but this got me thinking, where does Maemo and Nokia stand with regards to Linux kernel contributions?
Maemo videos
I am back, with a blog on another service. I attended the Akademy 2008 and Maemo Summit 2008 conferences. I have created a video of both of them. These are no presentation videos but rather attempt to record the spirit of the time and place to a collection of video clips which are presented in a sequence on these short movies. Both conferences were quite interesting and a success. It was great to meet new people, especially on the Akademy conference, I have been participating many years in the Guadec conferences, but this was my first Akademy.
x11 benchmark on embedded systems
Unlike most would say, x11 does quite well. See our benchmarks comparing X11, FB, DirectFB on a Fresscale imx31. There you can see how x11-16 bitch-slaps everything… that’s even better on n8×0 and that’s why Canola runs fast 
Blobby Volley 2 extra AI package
Blobby Volley 2 is a nice volley ball game in the spirit of clbuttic arcade volleyball. However, the default AIs are beatable by jumping in certain point, definitely too easy. Found some AIs over at esnips, and for convenience packaged them for maemo. .install file available as usual. Just install the package, start the game, go to options and select some AI.
Warning: these AIs aren’t easy to beat.
Install Tools Advanced Edition
READ ALL — USE WITH CAUTION — For advanced users who can fix (reflash) their own system This was due to the many many request for an easy to partition scipt, and ability to use ext3 and the ability to create more than one bootable partition per SD card. The debs still works and is [...]
N810: death and rebirth
My beloved N810 died last Tuesday. Well, not died died, but the screen stopped working. The topmost plastic layer is fine, but the LCD is probably cracked underneath. This probably happened while I was in an Apple store watching a friend of mine buy an iPhone. Coincidence?
Easy Debian moves to Extras
Finally, "Easy Debian" is no longer just a "circus trick"; you can use real laptop applications on your tablet at not-unreasonable speeds, thanks to a couple of "turbo charging" boosts we've gotten lately, and a lot of polish from the rapidly maturing Debian side.
Presenting SharePy
SharePy just have come to its second important release, so it’s a good moment to present it in society, since I couldn’t be in the Maemo summit presenting it.
I have created an application to upload files to the Nokia service Share On Ovi from the Internet Tablet. In the actual version it’s a simple application, you can add files (images, videos and audios), tag it and upload to some of your channels in Share On Ovi.
The important change in the 0.2 version is you can add multiple files at once, and tag it as a batch.
How to easily boot your Nokia tablet from SD
In this post you will find information about how to easily clone your OS running in flash to an SD card. There are two deb’s that are used to accomplish the cloning process. install-tools.deb (800 Internal/External, 810 Internal) install-tools-N810e.deb (810 External) PREREQS Remove any virtual memory before starting, the script will clone and automatically setup virtual memory partition for SD [...]
GUPnP: achievements and way forward
As most of you probably know already, GUPnP is now officially part of Maemo and therefore future internet tablets. This is a major milestone and gives a big boost to my motivation to continue my UPnP adventure. Although I try to put as much of the bits and peaces of spare time i get from my job into UPnP work and I am pretty sure the Intel (former OH) will continue their work as well, we could certainly use more hands to accelerate the development.
