I've just read in the Maemo site news The final Chinook SDK has been released, what means the N810 device is shopping in the next weeks. I haven't noticed it in the moment I received the email about the N810 discount program. Great news!!! I have already downloaded and installed the rootstraps which can be found here.
Personally, I prefer a manual installation, so it's just a matter of creating and setting up new targets, downloading the i386 and armel rootstraps, run a couple of simple apt-get commands and you're done.
We already have the new version of Canola running on Chinook. It is unbelievable how beautiful and delightful the new UI feels, thanks to our design team, which has been doing an excellent job. I can say it brings a totally new concept and you'll certainly enjoy it *A LOT*. We'll bring other hot news about Canola really soon!
Meanwhile, I encourage everybody to try to learn how to develop applications using the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries, specially Evas and Edje.
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N810 maemo submission accepted
Congratulations! You have been accepted to the N810 maemo device
program. We will send your discount and instructions as soon as the
device is available in your selected shop (soon).
Thanks Nokia!!! I can't wait to receive the discount code!
We can't have one of those cool N810 yet, but we're already able start developing/porting applications to the new API. Renato kicked off the ball and updated the Abiword patch to make it compatible and also removed the code which used so long deprecated HildonApp and HildonAppView API. Some days ago I set up the Chinook SDK environment and decided to start with something simple or, in other words, Leafpad.
Packages coming soon.
Packages coming soon.
Nokia's phones often appear as if their hardware and software were designed by completely different groups and slapped together at the last minute (because, in many cases, that's exactly what happened).
Advised by Marcelo, I've just read Michael Mace's post about the imminent "war" between Nokia and Apple. It's really worth reading.
From this day on, I'll never play Wii Sports Bowling anymore.
Thanks Vivi for playing as my sparring. :)
Thanks Vivi for playing as my sparring. :)
There are guys at INdT who have been doing wonderful jobs but they still don't have their blogs syndicated in any planet. This way, I thought it was a good idea to have a post with some interesting news and links:
That's all folks! (At least for now). ;)
- LLVM performance tests
Lauro has been working on the ARM backend of LLVM for quite some time. It's been a year since the backend was included in the project. After lots of improvements, tests and bug fixes, it's now possible to compile complex programs and libraries.
Lauro has just started his blog and has already published quite impressive results of tests comparing programs built with GCC and LLVM. I just can't wait for whole distro built with LLVM. :) - Hildon bindings for Vala
Marcelo Lira (aka setanta) introduced this brand new language called Vala for us some time ago. He's been posting about it since then, including the following diagrams illustrating the basic differences between Mono and Vala.
Mono
Vala
Vala bindings are growing really fast. One of the latest additions were the Hildon bindings Marcelo has provided. It's approaching the day we won't need to code GObjects in plain C anymore. - Maemo SDK Applicance
Marcelo Lira (again) has published a cool screencast of Maemo SDK appliance running. The video is on YouTube but I'd recommend you to download the Ogg/Theora Version available in Maemo garage project page.
That's all folks! (At least for now). ;)