October 2009 Archives

One to note maybe, for those tracking developments of Nokia's open source Debian-based Maemo environment, for smartphones and tablets.

The mobile phone giant has announced the creation of the official Qt port to Maemo 5 and published an initial Technology Preview release.

It means that developers can now use Qt - the open source cross-platform development framework - to target  upcoming Nokia N900 devices, as well as port apps to all Qt's other supported platforms. This includes Maemo 6, it states, as well as Symbian and Windows Mobile.

One for the record books? Distributor Acal Technology has samples of what is claimed to be the world's smallest, self-contained Linux networking server. It fits in an an extended RJ-45 connector, believe it or not.

Lantronix XPort Pro operates Linux or Evolution OS operating systems, and inside is a 32-bit processor, 8Mbyte SDRAM, and 16Mbyte of flash, writes Steve Bush.

Just to share what was new to me - Intel has an Open Source Software landing page on its website, bringing together different elements of its coverage: Moblin developments, tools and resources, events, multimedia, developer content, project contributions, etc.

You can find Open Source at Intel at http://software.intel.com/sites/oss/

They've also created an Open Source element of the Intel "blogosphere" (dread phrase). You can find their various blog posts that are filed under the category of Open Source at http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/category/open-source/

Thanks to Dawn Foster, on the Intel Software Network, for flagging this one - a Linux Kernel Roundtable with Linus Torvalds, J.E.J. Bottomley, Jonathan Corbet, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Ted T'so, and Chris Wright.

View the Linux Magazine Roundtable - The Linux Kernel: Straight from the source

Happy to flag this one for your attention - the Share project. It's slogan is: "Improving European embedded systems industry through open source SW sharing."

It describes its aims to be to support the sharing of knowledge (software evaluations, benchmarks, methodologies) and embedded system software in a way that "assures easy collaboration of the stakeholders":

"SHARE is a project (co-funded by the European Commission FP7) with the aim to facilitate open source software code sharing and utilisation within the embedded system domain, creating a nurturing environment for applications and solutions to be developed on OSS middleware, and paving the way for new business models and services."