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E17, Slimmed Down For Cell Phones

Posted by timothy on from the durned-amazing-looking dept.

twitter writes "Want to run Enlightenment on your cell phone? The Rasterman's recent efforts bring E17 to Open Moko FreeRunner and Treo 650: 'According to the Rasterman, when used with his updated illume stack and new Elementary widget set, E17 can now run in just 32MB of RAM, on an ARM9 processor clocked at 317MHz. To prove it, he is distributing a Linux kernel and E17/Illume/Elementary stack for Palm's Treo650. The stack can be launched from PalmOS without touching the device's flash storage, he says.' While Microsoft fumbles with limited 'instant on,' GNU/Linux rules the embedded world and that's the only thing going in the IT market right now."

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  1. Awesome! by Chris+Burke · · Score: 4, Funny

    According to the Rasterman, when used with his updated illume stack and new Elementary widget set, E17 can now run in just 32MB of RAM, on an ARM9 processor clocked at 317MHz.

    Cool!

    Next step: Running E17 and an application! =D

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  2. Re:What a guy by TheModelEskimo · · Score: 2, Funny

    but Raster just doesn't get the attention he deserves for his elegant technical solutions

    This is because a long time ago, Rasterman refused to sign the NDA*, so the Powers that Be banished him to Japan to lock him out of the limelight.

    *No Deodorant Agreement

  3. Since when is 32M small? by efalk · · Score: 3, Funny

    Excuse me, did I read that right? 32 meg? I hope that was supposed to be 32k. For 32M, I would expect it to do my taxes as well.

  4. Finally the lack of updates make sense by CottonThePirate · · Score: 4, Funny

    So enlightenment has been hanging around almost non-updated for 10 years (seems like anyway, I ran it in 2000 on Mandrake). Back then I was running a 500MHz Celeron. They were just waiting for cell phones to catch up to pick back up on development. Brilliant!

  5. Can the summary be any more unclear? by ahecht · · Score: 2, Funny

    Would it have killed the submitter to clue us in to what Enlightenment is? All I can get from the summary is that it is Linux related and now runs on cell phones. This isn't a telegraph, you're not paying by the letter, and there is nothing wrong with saying "the Enlightenment window manager" instead of just "Enlightenment".

    1. Re:Can the summary be any more unclear? by paniq · · Score: 3, Funny

      No no, this is about actual enlightenment. Gautama Buddha will lecture from your cellphones built-in speakers, educating you and everyone else around you about the noble eightfold path, as you travel by train and cab.

      I can hardly restrain myself. I want two!

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  6. Aw, snap! by paniq · · Score: 4, Funny

    At a first glance I thought this was about E17, the boyband.

    My reaction remains unaltered though: wow, it's still around?

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