Rasterman's Gang: Nokia N810, Sharp Zaurus, OpenMoko Freerunner and Palm Treo-650
After Rasterman announced he had "The Gang" running Illume we decided to help him and run it in yet-another platform, the Freescale iMX31:
Some days ago raster already posted video of his virtual keyboard doing correction/prediction and operating on various resolutions, for those that liked my iPhone-like virtual keyboard demo for n800, this one looks better and is for real, check out his videos: 01, 02, 03 and 04
Unlike most would say, x11 does quite well. See our benchmarks comparing X11, FB, DirectFB on a Fresscale imx31. There you can see how x11-16 bitch-slaps everything... that's even better on n8x0 and that's why Canola runs fast ;-)
ProFUSION is proud to announce the first public release of our Guarana framework and its demo Enjoy.
Guarana is a set of free software libraries to aid embedded application development. It comes with with a remote control access library, module loader, model-view-controller machinery, basic data structures and a fast growing widget set.
Enjoy is a demo music player targeted at embedded touchscreen devices. It uses Guarana's MVC and widgets and Emotion to play media.
Here's a video running on the target demo platform, a Freescale imx31 3-stack board. (it will run on N8x0, but will not play music because Emotion's gstreamer backend uses decodebin, we need to patch it to use DSP decoders/sinks)
More information about Guarana features and an Enjoy screenshot see the original press release.
For those that don't know, Guarana is a Brazilian plant and also the name of an excellent soft drink. It's also the base of some energetic drinks. That's why the demo is called Enjoy... okay, okay, it's also because it starts with "e" as well ;-)
We're proud to release a new version of LightMediaScanner, the fastest media scanner for your embedded device ;-)
This version now adds the direct relationship of audios and artists table, this will allow album-less audios to have an artist as well as have collections audios to display their artists. Yes, Canola will behave better now.
Also new are the often requested single-process scan and progress reporting.
Progress is reported using callbacks. Since it is impossible to know beforehand how many files will be in the directories before walking them, there is no "total" item reporting or percentage, this is up to you if you think it is worth to pay such penalty. Check also does not report so it's uniform, but number of items to check is easier to discover, just check the database. These callbacks will also report the state of such file, so you can notify user if some files were skipped because they took too much to finish (more than slave_timeout).
Single process scan is now available, but it's mostly there to aid debugging. While it will speed up scan on single-CPU machines (ie: Nokia N810), it is less safe and if it breaks/hangs (ie: due MMC being removed during parse, or bad FAT filesystem) it will bring down your whole software, so be aware of that before using.
Last but not least, our GIT moved from http://staff.get-e.org/ to http://gitweb.profusion.mobi/ (Gitweb) with repositories being cloned from git clone git://git.profusion.mobi/$PROJECT
Please report any bugs to our project at garage.maemo.org!