Re:Plasma Mobile – Turns your phone into a fully open hackin...
by digi_owl on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @05:57PM
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Yeah, at the tail end of the Maemo timeline Nokia bought Trolltech, the Norwegian company responsible for Qt.
Earlier versions of Maemo had been using GTK.
The intro of the Qt based Maemo 5 on the N900 effectively drove a wedge into the community, in particular as Nokia gave away N900s at the unveiling.
At the same time Nokia and Intel could not agree on the structure of Meego, with Intel first going deb (same as Maemo) but then switching to rpm with Moblin2.
In the end the whole mess was handed over to the Linux Foundation as both parties lost interest (Intel started Moblin in large part to light a fire under Microsoft to support mobile Atom).
Earlier versions of Maemo had been using GTK.
The intro of the Qt based Maemo 5 on the N900 effectively drove a wedge into the community, in particular as Nokia gave away N900s at the unveiling.
At the same time Nokia and Intel could not agree on the structure of Meego, with Intel first going deb (same as Maemo) but then switching to rpm with Moblin2.
In the end the whole mess was handed over to the Linux Foundation as both parties lost interest (Intel started Moblin in large part to light a fire under Microsoft to support mobile Atom).