Above a picture of the new IREX DR800 which the e-reader that Barnes and Noble will bring to the market soon. The device is based on the more professional IREX DR1000 which runs Linux + a host of GNOME technologies (GTK+, dbus, etc. etc.).
You can write programs for these devices by installing the SDK. I’ve tried it a while ago and it works pretty nicely. I only find it a pity that IREX doesn’t advertise this at all at their main website. I strongly believe that IREX could build a vibrant developer community if they would market it a bit more. They probably have been really busy cranking out the IREX DR800 for Barnes and Noble.
Let’s hope the device does well and because of that a vibrant developer community will develop itself
How come D-Bus is a ‘GNOME technology’?
Minor correction – I think you mean “Barnes and Noble” not “Barnes and Nobles”.
[...] stuurde een mailtje dat de eReader niet draait op Android, maar op Linux met Gnome-interface (meer info in deze blogposting). Daar staat ook een PDF-bestand met meer informatie over het gebruikte platform. [...]
[...] the open platform used for the device doesn’t appear to be Android. As pointed out by Jaap A. Haitsma, the eReader uses GNOME as the OS. You can write programs for these devices by installing the SDK. I’ve tried it a while [...]
Ever so pardon, and point of order:
GNOME isn’t an OS–this is a mistake made only by those who believe windoze to be an OS, rather than a fault mode loaded DOS shell.
GNOME is nothing more than a UI.
If we’re going to discuss things such as OSses and UIs, lets get at least the friggin’ basics straight…shall we?
[...] the open platform used for the device doesn’t appear to be Android. As pointed out by Jaap A. Haitsma, the eReader uses GNOME as the OS. You can write programs for these devices by installing the SDK. I’ve tried it a while [...]
[...] the open platform used for the device doesn’t appear to be Android. As pointed out by Jaap A. Haitsma, the eReader uses GNOME as the OS. You can write programs for these devices by installing the SDK. I’ve tried it a while [...]
Nice. However it’s a couple of years I’d like to buy a reader from iRex, like the iLiad running GNU/Linux, but I was always put off by the astronomic price they held.
I hope this time they’ll drop the price enough to allow me a nice xmas present.
And support nicely non-DRMed PDFs, folks!
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[...] quite some pingbacks on my post from yesterday from Android sites who think that the reader of Barnes and Noble will be based on [...]
[...] the open platform used for the device doesn’t appear to be Android. As pointed out by Jaap A. Haitsma, the eReader uses GNOME as the OS. You can write programs for these devices by installing the SDK. I’ve tried it a while [...]
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