OpenEmbedded

Like last year some of the projects here are present at LinuxTag fair in Berlin/Germany. The projects GPE, GPE Phone Edition and OpenEmbedded will be at the "Mobile and Embedded" booth at the LinuxTag fair and conference. It takes place at Berlin ... [More] Expo Center from from May 28th to May 31st, 2008. The projects share the booth 112 (kindly sponsored by Tarent) in hall 7 with several other related projects. You can expect to see a lot of funky devices running interesting mobile software there as well at the chance to meet some of the developers. We would be happy to meet you at LinuxTag! The LinuxTag fair is one of the biggest Open Source related events in Europe. It is meant to attract all sorts of people interested and involved in Open Source and is a great opportunity for users, developers and business people to get in touch with each other. read more [Less]

This was nice! Three days of meetings at the J.J.Pickle Research Center of IBM at Austin, Texas USA. A lot of groups of the Linux ecosystem met, some kernel guys, desktop guys, Linux printing folks, power management interested and also a complete ... [More] track of Linux on mobile devices. With almost every meeting and presentation mobile Linux was at least mentioned once. This is quite amazing! read more [Less]

The OpenEmbedded project has started to maintain a stable branch, next to its development branch, on March 28th 2007. Besides "org.openembedded.dev" there now is the "org.openembedded.stable" branch. The plumbing work on the development branch ... [More] (long-term improvements such as packaged staging, creating stand-alone SDK toolchains and a new package manager) colides with the goal of offering a stable base for OpenEmbedded-derived distributions. Some projects, most notably the Angstrom distribution, already maintained a stable branch for this reason. The effort of maintaining a stable branch is now centralized back into the OpenEmbedded project. The main goal of the stable branch is to provide a branch that progresses in time with a minimum of disruptive changes, especially to the framework, which include classes, configuration namespace, package management, and tooling such as the bitbake tool. Changes to the stable branch are selected and reviewed according to an agreed upon policy before being committed to the stable branch. This will require extra effort from the OpenEmbedded developer community. The stable branch is not intended to keep up with the pace of development on the development branch. Planned is to create new stable branches every year; the next stable branch is scheduled to branch of the development tree during 2008.12. Old stable branches will go in unmaintained mode 3 months after a new stable branch is created; the current stable will retire 2009.2. OpenEmbedded projects and distributions now have the choice of at least a .dev and .stable branch and the OpenEmbedded developers can keep on plumbing. mailinglist | ViewMTN [Less]

The freesmartphone.org project offers a platform for discussion and implementation of open standards for Linux based smartphones. Discussions for several standards such as an open telephony API have started already and the the first pieces of code ... [More] appeared in the subversion repository. The main website has a wiki providing information about the project and for collecting input for the ongoing projects. If you want to follow the development or intend to participate in the discussions you should take a look at the project page which has information about the development progress and available resources such as mailinglists and the SVN repository. read more [Less]

A set of useful GPE applications is available for Maemo 4.0 Chinook which runs on th Nokia N800 and N810 Internet Tablet devices. Graham Cobb did a magnificant job updating the applications, fixing various issues and building binary packages. This is GPE-Contacts in use on a N810 (click to enlarge). Find out more: read more

Who is going to be there on fosdem ? Gerwinin Likewise Zecke Florian

The Maemo project just released a great set of training material for Maemo 4.x. It covers most of the important topics for creating software for mobile devices. Even if it is quite specific for Maemo it contains a lot of information interesting both ... [More] for beginners who get in touch with Linux software development the first time and for experienced programmers who want to extend their skills for creating high quality mobile device software. The training material consists of three parts: read more [Less]

The LiPS forum just announced a release of additional standards that complete the LiPS 1.0 specifications. The most interesting part of the new release are the telephony API standards which are the key focus of LiPS. The archive containg the full ... [More] standard release can be found here. LiPS is an industry consortium which defines standards for mobile phones based on Linux and related Open Source solutions. In the current members list we find some quite well known companies in the Open Source landscape. read more [Less]

LinuxToGo now supports GIT repositories for projects and personal use. This is going to be very useful for Linux Kernel projects which want to stay in sync with upstream Linux development. GIT is set up and running as well as GITweb which is available at http://git.linuxtogo.org. read more

The GPE project website has a new and improved design now. The layout is the same as before, so all links should be still valid. Many thanks to Nóra Demeter for this great contribution!