The second version of the Fremantle alpha SDK has just been released, see the announcement and go get it now.
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So, its kind of official, Ubuntu is coming to Maemo.
Today, Canonical announced that they are to officially create a ARMv7 version of their most popular software product, Ubuntu Linux, but what does that mean?
In this talk from the Maemo Summit 2008, the Mamona developers talk about how Mamona can benefit the whole community.
Its been nearly 4 months since the last release of Entertainer but now version 0.2 RC (Release Candidate) has been made available. This release has many bug fixes, some minor enhancements (slide show feature, video playback eye candy among others) and some code clean-up but the real story is how Entertainer is progressing.
At the 2008 Maemo Summit there were more lightening talks planned for day two, along with some from day 1 that had technical problems. Here are a hand full great talks that showcase what Maemo has to offer.
Wow, who would of thought it; 65gb of video takes a long time to edit and transcode.
So here is another one. From day 2 of the summit comes a very interesting video, the introduction of the first ever Maemo Community Council.
In this presentation from the Maemo Summit 2008, Marcelo Eduardo gives his views on producing custom user experiences and interfaces.
Marcelo is the user experience designer at Nokia's Institute of Technology (INdT) and has been involved in projects such as Carman and the hugely popular Canola.
Marcelo gave a great and entertaining talk, well worth a watch so go do it now !.
As promised, here are the recordings from the second half of the lightning sessions. I must apologize if I missed anyone (I think I missed one) as I had a technical fault in one of the talks.
Anyway here are the recordings.
Maemo Bug Jar - Stephen Gadsby
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?
Part 1 of the Maemo Summit lightning sessions has now been uploaded. Below you will find the first 7 videos, the others should come in the next day or two.
Debian in a chroot on the tablet - Alan Bruce (qole)
For those people who don't follow the linux-omap mailing list, a nice set of patches that begin to enable the HSPA modem of the new Nokia tablets, has just landed. These patches have yet to be reviewed but from a quick scan, they look in pretty good shape. They have been posted to the main kernel mailing list as well but as of this time, no comments have been made.
I wish the developers at Nokia would be more vocal about the development process, especially as there is a lot of anticipation for the Maemo 5 platform. I guess until we have them all blogging somewhere we will just have to piece together the parts of the puzzle ourselves.
Nokia's Carlos Chinea has announced: