On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 21:15 +0530, K. Ghosh wrote: > The Linux-based Nokia 770 Internet Tablet, read about it at - > http://www.nforcershq.com/article3026.html
Official page at http://www.nokia.com/770 The software running in that tablet is based on the GNOME Developer Platform and some software from the FreeDesktop stack. The multimedia capabilities are being provided by Gstreamer (I plan to give a talk on the Gstreamer Multimedia Framework in the next LUG meet), and the applications are GTK based (so anyone with knowledge of GTK can start hacking on the various applications for the device). In fact, most stock GTK based apps "just runs" on the device -> http://www.postneo.com/2005/05/26/gkrellm-on-maemo A whitepaper on the s/w environment in the device is available at http://www.maemo.org/platform/docs/maemo_exec_whitepaper.html To me, personally, the most interesting thing in that device is the internet browser application. Mozilla/Gecko based solutions are becoming too fat for many systems, and Nokia has ported Apple's HTML Rendering Engine - Webcore to GTK for this system. http://gtk-webcore.sourceforge.net/ I'll be doing some programming with Webcore ASAP - and this might be the light web browser solution I have been looking for for sometime. ...and in other news, Nokia will be donating the proceeds from the sale of 500 tablets to the GNOME Foundation - press release at http://2005.guadec.org/press/releases/nokia_donation.html Thanks, Sayamindu -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
