Today’s release provides— not one— but two build environments.
Our desktop build provides the ideal development environment for enhancing the webOS user experience with new features and integrating state of the art open source technologies. Developers can now use all their desktop tools on powerful development machines.
Our OpenEmbedded build provides the ideal development environment for porting webOS to new and exciting devices.
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OpenEmbedded was a natural choice for many reasons:
Its widespread community adoption
Excellent cross-compiling support for embedded platforms
And support for multiple hardware architecturesThe build provides an ARM emulator, running core services such as db8 and node.js.We are actively converging on an OE Core image which boots to System Manager and the full webOS experience.
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Now begins the long wait for the ski77ed to get their hands on this so they can make it possible for us unskilled peons to use it on actual devices.
Someone has already begun to play …
So, let's see if Open webOS builds and/or runs on a Transformer Prime running Ubuntu—
Steve Troughton-Sm… (@stroughtonsmith) August 31, 2012
"This will typically take one to three hours, depending on the speed of your system and of your internet connection." – so 10 hrs on Prime?—
Steve Troughton-Sm… (@stroughtonsmith) August 31, 2012
The Open webOS release should run on any x86 tablet that's been announced in the last week on top of Ubuntu (as well as any PC)—
Steve Troughton-Sm… (@stroughtonsmith) August 31, 2012
And now, dependencies finished and build environment set up: begin the Open webOS build on Ubuntu running on a Transformer Prime!—
Steve Troughton-Sm… (@stroughtonsmith) August 31, 2012
But he is the first with it on the desktop:
#open #webos is built! and running on my Ubuntu.—
Eric B (@ekdikeo) August 31, 2012
It’s Labor Day weekend here in the States. A three-day weekend. Maybe by Monday someone will have the ARM embedded version on an actual tablet?
And will someone try it on a Nook Touch?
Stay tuned!
Update, Friday August 31, 2012: And here is @ekdikeo’s Open webOS Beta Ubuntu desktop screensnap:
Second Update, Friday August 31, 2012:
Finally built Open webOS for desktop! And submitted my 1st pull request to fix something in the build scripts. http://t.co/evnsts9p—
pcworld (@pcworldsoftware) August 31, 2012
Third Update, Friday August 31, 2012:
Finally.. #OpenwebOS yfrog.com/oc7gynp—
iMarck (@iMarck90) August 31, 2012
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