Bagel Belly Blog

Links for 2008-10-07

Catching up on what's been going on in the Linux world, and more specifically getting up to speed on the mobile side of things for obvious reasons. Here's a bunch of useful, interesting, quirky or otherwise notable stuff. Much more to come, I'm sure:

• Poky, platform build tool for creation of linux devices.


• HAL, hardware abstraction layer project for operating systems.


• OHM, Open Hardware Manager, systems daemon to abstract out hardware management tasks.


• D-Bus, message bus system, allowing inter-application communication / IPC. Ahh, I remember DCOP and Bonobo, the annoying bits in KDE and Gnome that kept crashing or making my machine crawl.


• GUPnP, open source plug 'n' play.


• GeoClue, geoinformation service built on top of D-Bus. API for providing position, address, velocity, etc. Nice!


• Hiker, application framework for linux, managing the lifecycle of an app on a device with limited specs.


• Hildon, application framework and touchable UI.


• Telepathy, interpersonal communication on top of D-Bus.


• GStreamer, media framework.


• WebKit, WebKit GTK and Mozilla Fennec, mobile browser alternatives.


• Clutter, gorgeous UI library. See Moblin screencast of a prototype. Reminds me of the early Apple piles/stacks demos mashed up with the surface computing demos.

And some meta links:

• David Wood's blog. David is EVP of Research at Symbian. Honestly, I could spend days reading this.


• VisionMobile blog - some interesting analysis.


• Nokia concept - video of a concept 'phone' from Nokia incorporating nanotechnology and morphing.