Documentation/Maemo For Symbian Developers Guide/Glossary
Glossary
- ABI
- Application Binary Interface, providing object code level compatibility.
- API
- Application Programming Interface, providing source code level compatibility.
- applet
- A small application that integrates to Hildon Desktop.
- ARMEL
- A name that e.g. Debian uses for the little endian ARM EABI (ABI for the ARM architecture).
- devkit
- The part of Maemo SDK that contains software development tools. Maemo SDK contains multiple devkits, e.g. doctools devkit.
- Hildon
- Application framework used in the Maemo platform. Developed by Nokia and based on GNOME/GTK+ technologies, currently in the process of becoming an upstream project in gnome.org.
- Hildon Desktop
- The main user interface component of Maemo Chinook, rewrite of Maemo desktop.
- Internet Tablet
- Product category for Internet-optimized mobile devices with touchscreen. The term was coined by Nokia, but is nowadays used more widely to include other devices.
- Maemo
- Software platform for mobile devices developed by Nokia, based on GNU/Linux and GNOME/GTK+ technologies. It includes proprietary components to make it work on the Nokia Maemo compatible device.
- maemo.org
- Developer community web site maintained by Nokia, main point of reference for open source and third-party developers in general.
- Maemo Software Development Kit
- (Maemo SDK) to create and port applications to the Maemo platform using a PC.
- OSSO
- Open Source Software Operations, Nokia organization developing and integrating software for Maemo compatible device.
- rootstrap
- Part of the SDK that contains selected software components from rootfs. Rootstrap is the root file system of a target inside Scratchbox.
- toolchain
- Part of the SDK that contains ARM cross compilation tools, such as compiler and linker.
Maemo Releases
- Mistral
- Maemo 2.0 release for Nokia 770 device. Corresponds to the Nokia Internet Tablet SE 2006 version 2.01.2006.26-8.
- Scirocco
- Maemo 2.1 release for Nokia 770 device. Includs mainly bugfixes and some other enhancements. Corresponds to Nokia Internet Tablet SE 2006 version 2.2006.39-14.
- Gregale
- Maemo 2.2 release for Nokia 770 device (bugfixes and enhancements).
- Bora
- Maemo 3.x releases for Nokia N800 device. Corresponds to Internet Tablet OS releases "1.2006.47-20", "2.2006.51-6" (Maemo 3.0), "3.2007.10-7" (Maemo 3.1) and "4.2007.26-8"+"4.2007.38-2" (Maemo 3.2).
- Chinook
- Maemo 4.0.x releases for Nokia N800 and N810 devices. Corresponds to Internet Tablet OS releases "1.2007.44-4" (Maemo 4.0) and "2.2007.51-3" (Maemo 4.0.1)
- Diablo
- Maemo 4.1.x releases for Nokia N800, N810 and N810 WiMAX devices. Corresponds to Internet Tablet OS releases "4.2008.23-14" (Maemo 4.1), "4.2008.36-5" (Maemo 4.1.1) and "5.2008.43-7" (Maemo 4.1.2)
- Fremantle
- Maemo 5.x releases for N900 device. Corresponds to Maemo 5 OS release "1.2009.42-11" + eMMC content "1.2009.41-1" (Maemo 5) and OS release "2.2009.51-1" + eMMC content "1.2009.41-1" (Maemo 5 Update)
- Harmattan
- Maemo 6.x releases, corresponds to Maemo 6 OS release "x.2010.xx-x"