Intel has unveiled an ambitious project aimed at developing open source software for mobile devices. The Moblin project comprises a Linux kernel, UI framework, browser, multimedia framework, and embedded Linux image creation tools, along with developer resources such as documentation, mailing lists, and an IRC channel.
interesting. but i wonder what nokia will have to say about this as it walks squarely into maemo turf.
The only thing they can do is close up future versions of Hildon. I don’t think they’re dumb enough to do that.
I’d be pretty surprised if they didn’t see this coming.
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The only thing they can do is close up future versions of Hildon. I don’t think they’re dumb enough to do that.
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Especially bearing in mind that Hildon is but a thin layer of lacquer over GTK/Gnome, and that Nokia’s software for the N700-N800 is more than 99% taken verbatim from the Free Software ecosystem.
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I’d be pretty surprised if they didn’t see this coming.
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Even more, I’d be pretty surprised if an Intel based Nokia N900 was not already in the works.
Of course they couldn’t come up with a better name for that…
Ugh.
Well if they had called it Mobilix they would have got sued by the publishers of the Asterix cartoon series:
http://mobilix.org/
WOULD YOU MORONS STOP f–kING WHINING ABOUT NAMES
Makes me think of the OpenMoko project:
http://www.openmoko.org
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The more souls that step on the {mobile}-OSS bandwagon the better.
Yes but this is Intel. They don’t have souls.
How does this relate to GMAE?
GMAE was only announced on April 19 and the founding organizations included Intel, Nokia, Red Hat, and Canonical.
http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/gmae.html
“Bridging industry and community, the GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative involves Open Source projects such as Avahi, BlueZ, Cairo, GNOME, GPE, GStreamer, GTK+, Hildon, Maemo, Matchbox, OpenMoko, Telepathy and Tinymail; and industry organisations CELF, the Linux Foundation and LiPS.”