Nokia Starts Open Source Website

X-Fade writes "Nokia launched OpenSource.nokia.com today. It is the first place to look for information concerning Nokia involvement in the Open Source community. The Projects page lists all Nokia developed downloadable code including: Maemo (Development platform for Linux based handhelds), MobileNews (Mobile NNTP reader), Python for S60, Sofia-SIP (SIP User-Agent library) and more. The website also features a list of all projects Nokia contributed to."

Comments

Re:Ipso?

[Saiyine]

Nokia IPSO is an appliance-optimized, security-hardened, clusterable OS capable of supporting a wide range of Nokia and partner security applications.

More info here.

For downloading anything..

[Anonymous Coward]

..registration is required. Luckily bugmenot has some valid accounts, for example: harryman84/blahblah, kutzooi23/nokianokianokia, bugmenot2/passworded

Re:Ipso?

[convolvatron]

i was one of the engineers on ipso. its not completely useless,
its lovely to do network level code in, and it was about 2x faster
than the freebsd it was based on (1.2) in forwarding speed. it
had decent custom routing protocol implementations.

but there really isn't any need for a seperate implementation
any longer. really. all you would be doing is losing out on
drivers. i think its lived just as a marketing token, a random
differentiator. and nokia can vaugely feel they got something
from buying ipsilon. i always hear about internal struggles to
replace it with linux, and remain thoroughly suprised it hasn't
happened yet.

Re:Where are the hacks?

[puto]

howardforum.com anything and everything you need to know. Sorted by carrier and phone. You can ask and receive any answer you need there.

And as for unlocking phones. Well go for it, all my have the hidden features enabled, and I work for the largest cell carrier in the US. Did I get the answers from work, nope. Got them from the web.

Here is the issue. The features are generally locked because they are untested, are have no bearing on what service your provider is selling you. Also if you flash firmware, or in general screw some of the software up, and the phone goes tits up, you will not be under warranty anymore.

I spend a fair amount of my time explaining to customers if they flash something to the phone motorola, or nokia did not write, and their phone is no longer working. IT is not a warranty issue, because it is out of spec for the device.

I doube Nokia would post a crack, because when a phone is warrantied through a carrier, it is then warrantied generally back to the manufacturer. So nokia would be shooting itself in the foot.

Cables you can find anywhere on the net, hell best buy in the us sells a kit with cables and software that lets you get into about 99.9% of all phones on the market.

Just do it at your own risk.

Puto