Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Maemo 5 SDK pre-alpha released


Nokia's Internet tablet Nokia N810 off late is in quite a buzz among Linux devices. Now Maemo.org has released pre alpha version of its Maemo 5 SDK . This open source release of SDK is featured with supports of hardware-based graphics acceleration for TI OMAP3 processors. Maemo SDK 5.0 also has supports for hi def cameras and cellular connectivity.

This advance Maemo SDK release also includes support for 3D graphical libary Clutter, PulseAudio, Tracker, Libcanberra, and OpenMax. Clutter is supposed to be used for a soon-to-be revamped UI and also a new multimedia framework (called "Midas") is also in pipeline through repository updates from NOKIA. There are supposed to be some backward compatibility hitches coz of addition of support for OMAP processors.There are also major updates in Glib, GTK+, GUPnP, Telepathy, BlueZ, the X server and some of the renewed Hildon components. Release notes can be referred for further information of SDK release.

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