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Nokia Starts Open Source Website

Posted by samzenpus on from the free-phones dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Ipso? by Saiyine · · Score: 4, Informative


    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.

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  2. Re:Ipso? by convolvatron · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.