GNOME 2.24 Released Featuring the GNOME Mobile Platform
by Kristin Shoemaker - Sep. 24, 2008Comments (0)- Related Blog Posts
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This week the GNOME Desktop team officially released GNOME version 2.24. This release incorporates numerous bugfixes and impressive new features, including the first release of the GNOME Mobile Platform.
The GNOME Mobile Platform will naturally be of greater interest to developers, and the GNOME team is preparing to make virtual machine images of various mobile platforms available for improved testing.
The GNOME Mobile Platform is integrated into a number of mobile device systems, such as Maemo, Ubuntu Mobile, the LiMo platform, Moblin, and Poky Linux. The small devices powered range from cell phones and netbooks to the interlocking do-it-yourself Bug Labs components.
Those programmers looking to work with the GNOME Mobile Platform will likely feel at home with much of the infrastructure, libraries and toolkits used in development. But there are device specific components, such as Matchbox, that developers new to the mobile environment may not have previously encountered. Although the GNOME Mobile platform's libraries are natively written in C, bindings for other programming languages (C++ and Python) are available and should open up the platform to a wider pool of developer talent.
The GNOME Mobile site details the missions of the project, as well as a number of technologies and applications that the project would like to see, eventually, be ported to and fully integrated with the mobile platform.
This is an opportunity for developers to get involved in an area of open source where acceptance and enthusiatic adoption is starting to really take hold -- and an area where its full potential likely hasn't been realized. New developers are encouraged to get involved by taking part in mobile development discussions and acquainting themselves with the community.
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