Nokia does not officially support Java on its maemo platform, yet. Of course it is technically possible to develop every type of application in C/GTK. But enabling the Internet Tablet to run Java programs offers possibilities beyond the programming language: Java is the most used language for development of third party mobile applications, and the Java platform is the unrivaled Number One for development of enterprise server side applications.
Nokia does not officially support Java on its maemo platform, yet. Of course it is technically possible to develop every type of application in C/GTK. But enabling the Internet Tablet to run Java programs offers possibilities beyond the programming language: Java is the most used language for development of third party mobile applications, and the Java platform is the unrivaled Number One for development of enterprise server side applications.
Python packages for the N800/maemo. The installation process requires you to open a terminal and become root and all sorts of other painful things. Eww. Why doesn't this stuff come in core nowadays? Python is _awesome_! Also installable on the scratchbox, apparently, which is useful.
Python packages for the N800/maemo. The installation process requires you to open a terminal and become root and all sorts of other painful things. Eww. Why doesn't this stuff come in core nowadays? Python is _awesome_! Also installable on the scratchbox, apparently, which is useful.
Updating the firmware on the N800. For some reason, I find myself having to look this page up far too often. Let's write it down somewhere. Note also that you mustn't have an SD cards in the device at flash time or things will break mysteriously.
Updating the firmware on the N800. For some reason, I find myself having to look this page up far too often. Let's write it down somewhere. Note also that you mustn't have an SD cards in the device at flash time or things will break mysteriously.
A recent comment on bugzilla by Marius Vollmer got me fired up on an idea jott has tossed around in the past. An osso-software-version-community community distribution of Maemo.
A community distribution lets us do a lot of cool things that working within the limits of Nokia's setup does not. It'll allow us to ship an OS that isn't so locked down by Nokia's corporate policy, remove dependencies on proprietary advertising (Skype, Gizmo, etc.), remove superfluous and problem-causing bundled media and documentation, modify existing packages with community patches, and ship community add-ons and community-patched Nokia applications. It gives us a distribution that is more stable, more useful, more versatile and more interesting.
A recent comment on bugzilla by Marius Vollmer got me fired up on an idea jott has tossed around in the past. An osso-software-version-community community distribution of Maemo.
A community distribution lets us do a lot of cool things that working within the limits of Nokia's setup does not. It'll allow us to ship an OS that isn't so locked down by Nokia's corporate policy, remove dependencies on proprietary advertising (Skype, Gizmo, etc.), remove superfluous and problem-causing bundled media and documentation, modify existing packages with community patches, and ship community add-ons and community-patched Nokia applications. It gives us a distribution that is more stable, more useful, more versatile and more interesting.