Documentation/Maemo SDK Virtual Image Tutorial/Glossary

Revision as of 09:05, 9 April 2010

ARMEL: A name that e.g. Debian uses for the little endian ARM EABI (ABI for the ARM architecture).
ESbox: Eclipse product implementing integration between Eclipse IDE and Maemo SDK.
GUI: Graphical User Interface.
IDE: Integrated Development Environment like Eclipse or QtCreator.
IP: Internet Protocol is a protocol used for communicating data across a packet-switched internetwork.
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.
OProfile: System-wide profiler for Linux systems.
OS: Operating System or sometimes Open Source.
Scratchbox: cross-compilation toolkit designed to make embedded Linux application development easier and to cross-compile an entire Linux distribution.
SDK: Software Development Kit.
Valgrind: Tool suite for debugging and profiling Linux programs.
VM: Virtual Machine.

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"