RSS
Логотип
Баннер в шапке 1
Баннер в шапке 2

Maemo

Product
Technology: OS

Maemo — based on Debian Linux the platform for portable devices. It is used in Internet tablets Nokia 770, N800, N810 Nokia and a communicator of N900 Nokia. Maemo are the cornerstone Gnome environment components, including graphic library gtk. The most part of the Maemo code is open, and formed a basis for creation Ubuntu Mobile. There is a set of applications for the Maemo platform, almost all of them free and free.

Origin of the name

Developer Jesus Kliment (isp. Jesus Climent) claims that it the name of the maemo platform was created by means of the program for password generation of pwgen. According to him, he used the program for creation of a name for the computer (the program offered "maimo", but it corrected it on "maemo"). Further the name of its computer became a name of storage of the code, then a project name, and then a platform name.