On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Gary <gary@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > YouTube's library of videos are encoded with codecs designed with mobile > streaming in mind (VP6, Sorenson H.263, H.264, MPEG-4 ASP). An office > suite UI built for years for a desktop OS is going to be non-trivial to > re-engineer for the 800 x 480 Hildon UI. However, we eagerly await the > testing of your DEBs if you'd like to get started on it; > http://tools.openoffice.org/dev_docs/buildlinux.html#GetTheSourceCode > > I'm not saying it's impossible but it's certainly non-trivial. q.v. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarOffice#History > > -Gary I'm not a developer, but I have programming experience and have already tried and the tools are just too user-unfriendly. Besides, it's already been done. There are screenshots here: http://qole.blogspot.com/2008/10/easy-debian-moves-to-extras-devel.html The fact that it's "non-trivial" to port is deliberate on Nokia's part, and is a direct result of the tablets and their OS not being truly open. The fundamental problem is Nokia's firm conviction that a proprietary version of Linux is both good and necessary. What needs to happen is for Nokia to make maemo compatible with Debian, not the other way around. It should have been the goal from the beginning. The last thing the world needs is yet another version of Linux that requires "porting" to make standard Linux applications work and results in a boatload of applications that only work on one miniscule family of machines. The bottom line is that if it requires porting, it's really not the same OS. Otherwise, a simple recompile for the target hardware is all that would be required. Additional work to port the already-armel Debian versions to maemo would be a waste of time and effort, since they are already working on Easy Debian. Clearly they were not ported, just recompiled. Mark _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
