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MWKN Weekly News for Monday, 7 Jan 2013

Front Page Hildon Foundation open letter and Jolla's response Last week, the Hildon Foundation sent an open letter to Jolla requesting cooperation and financial assistance with maemo.org: “We would welcome discussion about a relationship between our organizations… If anything, we would like to form...

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Happy New Year from the Hildon Foundation — and future years to come for the Maemo Community!

Happy New Year Maemo Community! As we move into the new year, we’re also faced with a very new phase of life — that is, complete control of the maemo.org infrastructure, meaning community governance of the Maemo Community and everything that it implies (community servers and software repositories, various maemo-related...

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Bypassing Tracker’s file system miner, for example for MTP daemons

Recapping from my last blog article; I worked a bit on this concept during the weekend. When a program is responsible for delivery of a file to the file system that program knows precisely when the rename syscall, completing the file transfer transaction, takes place. An example of such a program is an MTP daemon....

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The New Hildon Foundation Website

We’d like to take a minute to unveil the new Hildon Foundation website: http://hildonfoundation.org As you’ll see, there is a fairly easy way to donate to the Hildon Foundation and the Maemo Community: http://hildonfoundation.org/support/ This is the same method that’s being used here on tmo: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=1303767 VN:F...

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MWKN Weekly News for Monday, 3 Dec 2012

Front Page Nokia supporting Hildon Foundation in ecosystem infrastructure move The Hildon Foundation Board made a surprising and welcome announcement last week, notifying the community that Nokia has offered to cover the costs of migration for maemo.org: “In a conference held by Nokia, Nemein and the Hildon...

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QEMU and open hardware: SPEC and FMC TDC

Working with open hardware Some weeks ago at LinuxCon EU in Barcelona I talked about how to use QEMU to improve the reliability of device drivers. At Igalia we have been using this for some projects. One of them is the Linux IndustryPack driver. For this project I virtualized two boards: the TEWS TPCI200 PCI carrier...

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MWKN Weekly News for Monday, 26 Nov 2012

Front Page Jolla reveal strategy, UI and Qt Creator-based SDK at Slush 2012 Jolla is once again foremost in the minds of many mobile OS enthusiasts and open-source aficionados with more information being revealed regarding their strategy and future. The launch of their official website and a slick video partway between...

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