Ubuntu Mobile Looks At Qt As GNOME Alternative

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 20, 2009 @12:22PM from the friendly-competition dept.

Derwent sends along a Computerworld piece which begins: "The Ubuntu Mobile operating system is undergoing its most radical change with a port to the ARM processor for Internet devices and netbooks, and may use Nokia's LGPL Qt development environment as an alternative to GNOME. During a presentation at this year's linux.conf.au conference, Canonical's David Mandala said Ubuntu Mobile has changed a lot over the past year... 'I worked on ARM devices for many years so a full Linux distribution on ARM is exciting,' Mandala said, adding one of the biggest challenges is reminding developers to write applications for 800 by 600 screen resolutions found in smaller devices. 'The standard [resolution] for GNOME [apps] is 800 by 600, but not all apps are. For this reason Ubuntu Mobile uses the GNOME Mobile (Hildon framework) instead of a full GNOME desktop, but since Nokia open sourced Qt under the LGPL it may consider this as an alternative.'"

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Re:Full 'nix for arm? by morgan_greywolf · 2009-01-20 13:28 · Score: 2, Funny

Hello? Linus Torvalds? Is that you?

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Re:what the fuck are you on about? by slimjim8094 · 2009-01-20 14:26 · Score: 4, Funny

Folks, I propose we take this good fellow as the perfect example of a non-biased and uncharged commentator.
Kudos to you on your stellar objectivity!

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Kubuntu Mobile? by tepples · 2009-01-20 15:04 · Score: 2, Funny

How is this news?
It opens the door for Kubuntu Mobile.