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2006-12-20
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There's nothing stopping anyone porting Qt/QPE/Opie/Qtopia to the existing device - just use the existing kernel and bootloader and start Qtopia from /etc/rc2.d/* rather than the HAF.
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2006-12-20
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Anyone has tried to start qtopia on 770?
It would be very interesting to use any other flavor of Linux in 770.
Last edited by lucky-luke; 2006-12-20 at 16:43.
It would be very interesting to use any other flavor of Linux in 770.
Last edited by lucky-luke; 2006-12-20 at 16:43.
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2007-02-21
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qtopia is not an operating system, it is not a linux distro.
qtopia-core (previously qt-embedded) is a toolkit, for graphics, text, sound and input methods. Qtopia is a user interface built on top of that, just like KDE is built on top of qt3.
so, all you'd need to do is download (and there's a GPL version) the qtopia source (which includes qtopia-core), built it using cross-compilation tools for the arm processor, and install it on the n800. OK, easier said than done.
Now, if you wanted to run zaurus applications, you'd have to build qtopia-1.7 with qt-embedded 2.3.x because that's what Sharp used.
If you wanted to run Mylo apps, you'd need qtopia1.x as well as qtopia2.x 'cos it seems to use both.
qtopia-core (previously qt-embedded) is a toolkit, for graphics, text, sound and input methods. Qtopia is a user interface built on top of that, just like KDE is built on top of qt3.
so, all you'd need to do is download (and there's a GPL version) the qtopia source (which includes qtopia-core), built it using cross-compilation tools for the arm processor, and install it on the n800. OK, easier said than done.
Now, if you wanted to run zaurus applications, you'd have to build qtopia-1.7 with qt-embedded 2.3.x because that's what Sharp used.
If you wanted to run Mylo apps, you'd need qtopia1.x as well as qtopia2.x 'cos it seems to use both.
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2007-02-22
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I'm too newbie to start to cross-compile anything.
But I think that would be interesting any alternative to Hildon, like did penguinbait with WM.
But I think that would be interesting any alternative to Hildon, like did penguinbait with WM.
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2007-05-14
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I'm surprised there's not much interest in qtopia for the N800, as there's a rich pool of software (games, utilities) for it which runs very well on small footprint devices.
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2007-05-29
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Originally Posted by speculatrix
Me too.
I'm surprised there's not much interest in qtopia for the N800, as there's a rich pool of software (games, utilities) for it which runs very well on small footprint devices.
I think that people are expecting to Intel's Mobile Internet Device (MID), and maemo (extremely N770) is dieing....
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2007-05-29
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Originally Posted by lucky-luke
But... the MID is Hildon-based, no?
Me too.
I think that people are expecting to Intel's Mobile Internet Device (MID), and maemo (extremely N770) is dieing....
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2007-05-29
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I think is not, is linux, but is x86, and a thing called "Instant On" sounds like the Palm OS or WinCe...
http://www.umpcportal.com/modules/ne...hp?storyid=478
http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/16/i...a-hello-linux/
http://www.intel.com/products/mid/index.htm
http://www.umpcportal.com/modules/ne...hp?storyid=478
http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/16/i...a-hello-linux/
http://www.intel.com/products/mid/index.htm
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2007-05-29
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For example, Ubuntu Mobile is going to be a distro for the MID and I think that it will use hildon as its option. You can follow its mail-list: http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
You will see that the majority of mails are about hildon
Besides Maemo developers are making possible that hildon runs on other architectures (x86): http://maemo.org/maemowiki/HildonDesktopPortability
And soon we will see hildon in Ubuntu's repositories: http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/s...ll&release=all
Cheers,
You will see that the majority of mails are about hildon
Besides Maemo developers are making possible that hildon runs on other architectures (x86): http://maemo.org/maemowiki/HildonDesktopPortability
And soon we will see hildon in Ubuntu's repositories: http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/s...ll&release=all
Cheers,
It could be interesting if someone could understand the bootloader of the 770, and use any ARM distro, also it could be very interesting if NOKIA releases Maemo under GPL and its bootloader.