Thread: Maemo 5 Reveals its Features
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lardman is offline lardman
2008-12-15 , 09:24
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#159
The community was fragmented. The OS stagnated because the binary drivers became a really big issue in keeping the platform alive.
And the Zaurus community is still alive and supported by the Angstrom distro (based on OE). The Sharp Zaurus sl-5x00(D) now has a 2.6.x kernel (despite all the Sharp release kernels being 2.4.x) and afaik the c7x0 devices now have some working hw acceleration (again working from no docs).

5) Another X based version of the ROM with whatever GNOME had as their older mobile platform was released and was completely incompatible with everything else.
This is GPE, nothing to do with Gnome, except that it used an X server rather than drawing directly to the fb like Qtopia/Opie did.
 

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