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Finally Nokia resolved problems with codes for N810 developer program. So, yesterday I ordered N810 from Nokia on-line shop in UK. I have to wait 2 -3 days when device will be delivered to one of my friend in London and another 2 -3 days when UPS ships it to the Cyprus. I’d like to say many thanks to Nokia and Maemo for that program and support of open source development.

By the way, I’d like to introduce new Orbiter packages for LinuxMCe 0710 (Os2007 and Os2008) and Plutohome 2.0.0.44 (OS2008). They can be downloaded from the LinuxMCE/Plutohome Orbiter project page.

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As MythMaemo developers promised they implemented following features: program guide (EPG) support, creation of reminds (with alarm), manage of schedule record. Currently the changes are available in Subversion repository only but the package will be released on January.

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Recently the new version (4.0) of Maemo SDK VMware Appliance was released. This release includes following: Maemo 4.0 (Chinook) and Maemo 3.2 (Bora) with Nokia Binaries Installer, PyMaemo packages, Vala compiler and its Hildon bindings for Chinook, Maemomm libraries, EVAS (Bora and Chinook, but i386 only), qemu-arm-eabi used as default cpu transparency method, Eclipse with ESbox plugin, and Firefox has now a lot of bookmarks for reference material. Additionally version 4.0 provides code samples for all the libraries and development packages cited above.

Full changelog is available here. The Maemo SDK VMware Appliance 4.0 can be downloaded via HTTP (part 1, 1.0Gb and part 2, 947Mb) or BitTorrent.

I already downloaded and started to use the previous version with beta version of Maemo 4.0 (Chinook). I already built a few packages needed for LinuxMCE Orbiter. Now I’m going to continue my work using the Maemo SDK VMware Appliance 4.0.

UPDATED: After the first running of Maemo SDK VMware Appliance 4.0 I could find the network interface. After a sort googling I got solution - remove the file /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules and restart network service.

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My project - Plutohome Orbiter for Nokia770/N800 was accepted to the N810 maemo device program! Thanks to Nokia I’ll able to port and test the Plutohome/LinuxMCE Orbiter to the new N810 and smarthome folks will get a possibility to control their houses using Nokia’s Internet Tablet.

Thank you Nokia for the perfect gadgets and choice of Plutohome Orbiter project!

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As you may know recently Nokia released new version of its internet tablet - N800. So, Maemo community already prepared a new version of its SDK - Maemo 3.0 Bora. It’s easy to setup Maemo environment using Vmware. Just download Ubuntu Browser Appliance Virtual Machine and free VMWare Player and follow to this instruction.
Thanks to Kon Wilms who already prepared and published ready to use Maemo Development VMWare Appliance (1.05 GB, Bit Torrent). So, have a look and use it.

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