Category Archives: Open Source

There’s an article at NewsForge about Linux on Motorola cell phones and the lack of native applications: The big question is, what does Motorola gain by obstructing willing developers from bringing software to their platform? Actually, it’s not that much … Continue reading →

That’s the name of the Python for Series60 project up at SourceForge, and the source code is available as a package now! I missed it when it went up cause I kept checking CVS. Thanks to cyke64 for pointing me … Continue reading →

I saw in the developer newsletter from Nokia that they’ve released the source code to Python. No download link in the newsletter though, so I did a search and ended up at Andrew Lampert’s post: A quick search of SourceForge … Continue reading →

There’s been quite a bit of hubub over the GP2X, most folks like the device quite a bit. The latest news is over their release of kernel source code and modifications to open source programs, so I decided the time … Continue reading →

One of my favorite technology blunders has added another bullet point to their list of screwups. Apparently the Bluetooth folks have forced the BlueZ (Linux Bluetooth stack) folks to take down a list of hardware that works with BlueZ. I’m … Continue reading →

OSNews has a great writeup of the open source browser for the Series60 platform that Nokia has been working on. I stand by my assertion that I would like to see more code to go along with the talk, but … Continue reading →

We went over to the San Francisco edition of the Nokia 770 party. It was a very small event, so I had a lot of time to talk to the Nokia folks who were there. I’ve been doing Linux embedded … Continue reading →

Texas Instruments is shipping a DSP System On a Chip with Linux support for abstracted DSP interface. The article, and TI and MontaVista apparently, are talking about the video applications. I would think this would go a huge way toward … Continue reading →

Coverage from Linuxdevices.com today of the Linux Phone Standard (LiPS). Yay! It’s an effort that fits in quite well with the Mobile Linux Initiative from the OSDL. The OSDL effort is a relatively low level push, aiming to make the … Continue reading →

I’m a bit behind in my news, so I just caught the story about Neuros opening up the firmware to it’s audio player. As for the “Is this a good idea or a mere publicity stunt?” part, it really depends … Continue reading →