Ken Restivo wrote: > On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 04:16:08AM +1000, Lorn Potter wrote: >> Aaron Sowry wrote: >>> At the risk of sounding completely ignorant, what is the difference >>> between the 'Qtopia' images and the ASU images? Are the Qtopia images >>> open-source? >>> >> ASU is the hybrid ELF/ with parts from Qtopia running on X11 environment >> that Openmoko is developing. >> >> Qtopia is the phone gui that is developed by Trolltech, a Nokia Company. >> >> Qtopia is open source and released under the GPL. >> > > I think the question was: what's the difference between the Qtopia *images* > and the ASU images. > > IIRC, the ASU images use X, even the Qtopia apps on the ASU image use X, but > the Qtopia images do not have X, so the apps on the Qtopia image write > directly to a framebuffer. So the ASU is OpenMoko's port of Trolltech's > Qtopia, to run on X. > > Apps on the pure-Qtopia image have to be specially written in order to run on > the Qtopia image, to deal with the frame buffer. I'd also guess that'd mean > that the apps are faster, since X performs like an arthritic snail. > > I'm not sure where the Qtopia image comes from either. Does it come from > Trolltech? The ASU image comes from OpenMoko.
Yes, it comes from Trolltech ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Nokia to support the Qtopia Neo sdk. -- Lorn 'ljp' Potter Software Engineer, Systems Group, Trolltech, a Nokia company _______________________________________________ support mailing list support@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support
