KDE calls ‘home’

Yep, I didn’t have time to blog during aKademy as you may have noticed The main reason is that I had a lot of discussions and attended to a huge number of BoFs. This aKademy rocked just as the others that I went. Huge thanks to the organization team, KDE e.V and sponsors for providing ways to make this happen and to have a lot of KDE hackers there! Instead of doing a technical blog today, I will just say that during this aKademy KDE ‘called home’ for the first time.

MeeGo Developer Engagement

Some of the more observant people may have already seen my mail to meego-dev

Maemo Weekly News for Monday, 22 Feb 2010

Front Page Maemo and Moblin "merge" to form MeeGo On Monday, just after the release of our third issue, Nokia and Intel held a joint press conference to announce that the roadmaps of Moblin and Maemo were converging. The resulting operating system, MeeGo, would target phones, tablets and netbooks and be held under the stewardship of the Linux Foundation as a fully open source OS: We are taking the best pieces from these two open source projects and are creating the MeeGo software platform

BootScreen Lets You Change The N900 Boot Video With One Click

N900 users have been able to change their boot screens for a while, but earlier it involved tinkering with code and that meant you needed to know how to use the terminal to get this to work, not anymore. Valério Valério has published an application called BootScreen that lets you change your N900 boot video with a single click and requires no hacking skills. All you need to do is install BootScreen from the extras-devel repository in the N900 Application Manager ( here is how to enable it with one click ), transfer the boot video you want to set to the N900 and select it from within the application.