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QT 5 Will Be Available For Raspberry Pi

Posted by timothy on from the expectation-ratcheting-continues dept.

New submitter sirjohn writes with the good news that "A small group of ICS and Nokia engineers have started working on a minimal bootstrap to bring fully functional Qt 5" to the Raspberry Pi, writing "Do you want to create the next big thing on embedded devices and have $35 to invest? You can now have a complete development environment with accelerated graphics for basically nothing. I think it's a big deal ..." Plus, Nokia is funding 400 of the boards and looking for ideas (and developers) to use them. The competition is stiff; there are already quite a few impressive ideas listed.

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  1. So the system will be called ... by KWTm · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wait, no one has mentioned this yet?

    So, with the Raspberry Pi running the QT 5 operating system, of course this combination will be called ...

    the QT Pi

    Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week ...

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