Aaron Sowry wrote: > 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. >> >> Because the ASU uses X, then all kinds of other apps using other toolkits >> (Gnome, ETK, etc.) can co-exist beside the Qtopia apps on the ASU image. >> >> Example: I'm using the openmoko-terminal2 (which appears to be GTK), on ASU, >> alongside the excellent Qtopia apps. >> >> There's this too: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Distributions >> >> -ken >> >> _______________________________________________ >> support mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support >> > Thanks for clearing that up - I've just finished flashing my phone with > the Qtopia images and it's fairly slick actually, I think you're right > about X at least in the mobile realm. > > The Qtopia image does indeed come from Trolltech, pardon me if this has > been discussed already but does anyone know how to install additional > packages on Qtopia?
There are only a few packages in the feed right now. It is only me compiling stuff I find, and I have other duties as well. http://qtopia.net/packages/feed/4.3.2/neo -- Lorn 'ljp' Potter Software Engineer, Systems Group, Trolltech, a Nokia company _______________________________________________ support mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support
