The GNOME Foundation announced today the GNOME Mobile and Embedded Initiative (GMAE) today at the Embedded Linux Conference in Santa Clara, Calif. The initiative is aimed at bolstering GNOME usage as an embedded and mobile development platform. The initiative has been in development since last year, says GNOME Foundation board member Jeff Waugh. The platform will be distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). In the next 12 months the group plans to add a mobile email framework called Tinymail, the GeoClue geolocation service, Java Mobile & Embedded (Java ME), PulseAudio audio management, and the HAL hardware information system.
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Member since:2005-08-19
The GNOME Platform is very modular, that's one of the reasons it's such a popular choice for embedded work. For a simple embedded device, there's no reason to have more than 32MB RAM for the GNOME Mobile Platform, X and your application. All of the optimisation and performance work happening in the embedded space is improving GNOME for your PC! :-)
Member since:2006-02-15
For a simple embedded device, there's no reason to have a gui.
The overwhelming majority of embedded devices don't have any UI. That's part of what "embedded" meant before the market-droids got their claws into the term.
Member since:2005-12-31
> For a simple embedded device, there's no reason to
> have more than 32MB RAM for the GNOME Mobile
> Platform, X and your application.
Umm... 32MB of RAM is a *LOT* for an embedded device. A simple embedded device - even one that needs a GUI - is still far below that.
Also, I consider X and GNOME to be overkill for embedded stuff, let alone for *simple* embedded stuff. The whole concept of a window manager, or a network-abstracted GUI, don't make a lot of sense for embedded devices (special cases aside). I'd rather invest some effort into a device-specific GUI than port something that is encumbered by features I don't need.
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2006-02-11
Gnome on the mobile? Gnome on embedded devices ? I hope they can make it fit ? I am running gnome 2.1x on 256MB,PIII and they want to fit this on an embedded device. It's not like they have an integrated toolkit like Qt, or platform like Java to "cut back", but they have a full desktop environment that is not as well integrated as the above examples to cut back ? That's a lot of work and hacking. I hope the company adoption follows to make this expensive community effort worth it