Documentation/Maemo For Symbian Developers Guide/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.
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