About Maemo platform

What is maemo?

Maemo is an open source development platform to create applications for Nokia Internet Tablet products like Nokia N800 and Nokia 770. The platform gives developers a powerful Linux based development environment and optimized end-user interface for handhelds.

Who should use maemo?

Maemo is meant for developers with personal or commercial interests in developing software for handhelds like Internet Tablets. Maemo software and developer community website is contributed to this audience and operated by Nokia.

What technologies maemo uses ?

Maemo is composed of popular open source software components which are widely deployed in the leading Linux desktop distributions today. Maemo adapts these components to the handheld environment and contributes new technology like easy tools for non-x86 development, Hildon user interface framework, and some useful applications for Hildon. For more technical information please refer to our whitepaper and Maemo 2.1 Tutorial or Maemo 3.0 Tutorial.

How can I get started with maemo?

• Start developing by downloading maemo and reading the tutorials (links above)
• Join mailing lists for information and support
• Go read Maemo Wiki for information related to ongoing development projects and other topics.
• Contribute applications

Licensing terms

Maemo software is distributed under various open source and creative commons licenses. In addition to maemo components Nokia provides a collection of additional non-free software components. These are provided under a special EUSA license. See the maemo downloads area for details how to locate these components.

See the license page in maemo.org for details.

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