Comparing mobile development to the music industry

I believe it’s important for mobile platforms to specialize on what is important for mobile and embedded. This includes dealing with high latency networks, low amounts of disk space, high I/O costs, slow memory bandwidth. The development tools are often either far more or far less integrated.

Using wired connections from you tablet.

This hack was originally needed mainly because I am usually under a proxied network at work, and for some security issues this connection can not be broadcast'ed by access points or routers, but I do want my tablet connected to the same wired network of my desktop.

New UI for Kilikali

Thanks to Movial Kilikali got a modern UI and looks quite nice now:

Kilikali development has moved to a GIT tree (branch generic-2) hosted by linux.onarm.com.

Although the UI got improved and the playback on n8×0 got fixes there are still some bigger task to be done. E.g. adding single files, adding directories recursively and skipping unknown media types. Integration with Light Media Scanner has also been discussed.

Reducing number of external repositories #1

In my talk at the Maemo summit 2008, I talked about starting an effort to reduce the number of external repositories. Talking about this helps, but actively contacting developers and repository owners helps even more. This week I started by creating a list of all repositories we need to target. When this was done, I started to contact a lot of developers to convince them to move their packages into Extras and then close their repository.

The HSPA modem work has arrived

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.