Re: Goal for GNOME Mobile?

[Mikael Hallendal <micke imendio com>]

9 nov 2008 kl. 00.05 skrev Peter Robinson:

> > > I think GNOME Mobile could use a goal. Something we are all aiming  
> > > for. (And
> > > perhaps we have one and I'm not aware of it.) We have a mission  
> > > that is
> > > good, http://gnome.org/mobile.
> > >
> > > Could we make GNOME Mobile a complete solution like Android? A set  
> > > of
> > > software and a spec that hardware vendors could write to and ISVs  
> > > could
> > > develop on top of? I realized we'd need to expand into the Linux  
> > > kernel
> > > space to make that happen. GNOME mobile would be completely free  
> > > and open
> > > and not tied to proprietary web apps like Gmail.
> >
> > What about collaboration with something like LiMo so that there's  
> > less
> > need to expand into kernel space or reinvent the wheel?
>
> And I also forgot OpenMoko, and possibly Maemo. Not sure of what other
> small device OSes there are.

There is also Poky Linux (http://www.pokylinux.org/) though I'm not  
sure about it's status after OH was bought by Intel, hoping someone  
from the Poky team can fill in here.

Regards,
  Micke

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