[http://lwn.net/Articles/356825/]
===== Maemo Summit 2009: Fremantle, Harmattan, and N900 October 14, 2009 This article was contributed by Nathan Willis Nokia's second annual Maemo Summit brought together 400 developers and power users of the Linux-based tablet community in Amsterdam over the October 9-11 weekend. Maemo Community Manager Quim Gil said the primary goal was to bring the community together for the social and interactive benefits, but the three-day program also provided a solid introduction to the new Maemo 5 release, a preview of Maemo 6, and a chance to work with the Nokia N900 — which ships with as close to a standard Linux distribution as the marketplace has seen delivered on a usable mobile phone. [...] Nokia invested several years and several generations of product design building the Maemo Linux platform, and at the same time invested heavily in building an enthusiastic and deep community of Maemo application developers. It even encourages development of competing applications and interfaces, such as the Canola media player, the Mer distribution, and liqbase. As a result, Nokia now has a solid open source phone platform to show for it, one that (according to [Nokia's vice president of Maemo devices, Ari] Jaaksi) shares approximately 80 percent of its code with the standard desktop and enterprise Linux distributions. [...] ===== -- Soh Kam Yung my Google Reader Shared links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/16851815156817689753) my Google Reader Shared SFAS links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/16851815156817689753/label/sfas) _______________________________________________ LUGS Mailing list - [email protected] List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet To unsubscribe send an empty email to: [email protected]
