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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 17th Jul 2007 09:51 UTC, submitted by JK

Intel has unveiled an ambitious project aimed at developing open source software for mobile devices. The Moblin project comprises a Linux kernel, UI framework, browser, multimedia framework, and embedded Linux image creation tools, along with developer resources such as documentation, mailing lists, and an IRC channel.

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hmm...

by hobgoblin on Tue 17th Jul 2007 12:10 UTC

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2005-07-06

interesting. but i wonder what nokia will have to say about this as it walks squarely into maemo turf.

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RE: hmm...

by vegai on Tue 17th Jul 2007 12:22 in reply to "hmm..."

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2005-12-25

The only thing they can do is close up future versions of Hildon. I don't think they're dumb enough to do that.

I'd be pretty surprised if they didn't see this coming.

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RE[2]: hmm...

by Lobotomik on Tue 17th Jul 2007 13:55 in reply to "RE: hmm..."

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"""
The only thing they can do is close up future versions of Hildon. I don't think they're dumb enough to do that.
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Especially bearing in mind that Hildon is but a thin layer of lacquer over GTK/Gnome, and that Nokia's software for the N700-N800 is more than 99% taken verbatim from the Free Software ecosystem.

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I'd be pretty surprised if they didn't see this coming.
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Even more, I'd be pretty surprised if an Intel based Nokia N900 was not already in the works.

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