Movial to enable an ARM Mobile Linux platform

[sampo nurmentaus movial fi]

Hello Everybody,


Movial is working with ARM and partners to contribute to GNOME and existing 
projects to help the use and integration of open source technology with mobile 
platforms. This builds on existing work from open source developers and 
contributions from companies building mobile devices. The main contributions 
will be around the UI framework and browser technology. The libaries and 
techniques used are those familiar from Gnome Mobile stack. New mobile 
components we will be working with are components like HAL, Gnome Network 
Manager, Gnome Volume Manager and Mozilla based browser.

This work aims at supporting existing efforts in building a complete set of 
open source components targeting mobile platforms instead of starting 'yet 
another new project'. ARM processors are widely used in existing mobile 
platforms where power, performance and integration are key. Cooperation with 
ARM and its partners should help in making GNOME and related open source 
projects more successful in building mobile devices using open source software 
components. An important goal for the work being done is to contribute to the 
respective opensource projects and thus to contribute in having a solid and 
opensource Gnome Mobile stack.

Please feel free to ask questions, send comments and talk about the subjects
with ARM or Movial guys on various mailing lists and IRC channels.

With best regards,

Sampo Nurmentaus (sampo dot nurmentaus at movial.fi), Antti IjÃ?s (antti dot 
ijas at movial.fi)
and the rest of the Movial team.