Glossary

Revision as of 20:45, 24 February 2010

A

ATM:

At The Moment

B

BME (Battery Management Entity):

Is proxied to D-Bus via the bme-dbus-proxy daemon

F

Fremantle:

current Maemo 5 release *

H

Harmattan:

future Maemo 6 (now MeeGo handheld) release by Nokia, to include bundled officially-supported Qt libraries

I

IIRC:

If I Recall Correctly

L

LSB (Linux Standard Base):

The goal of the LSB is to develop and promote a set of open standards that will increase compatibility among Linux distributions and enable software applications to run on any compliant system even in binary form.

O

OBS (OpenSuse Build System) more info...:

The Opensuse Build Service. is an open and complete distribution development platform that provides a transparent infrastructure for development. The service provides software developers with a convenient and easy to use tool to create and release open source software for openSUSE and other Linux distributions on different hardware architectures and for a broad user audience.

OSSO (Open Source Software Operations):

It was a department inside Nokia responsible for producing Maemo. It has been replaced by Maemo Software.

S

SVC (Social Vendor Contract):

A social contract for vendors to commit to, in order to have community spending time on them and not waste their time and end up with locked devices with a open system.

SSO:

Single Sign On

T

TMO (talk.maemo.org):

Main forum for Maemo non-technical community.

Useful links

• Acronym Finder
• Maemo Codenames *