Developers: Come play with us and build the future
"....your job (should you choose to accept it) is to create neat-o
whiz-bang software that kids all over the world will love to use, and
modify, and adapt. And make it all happen in memory/storage space
smaller that a lot of people these days carry around in their pockets.
Other development challenges are listed on the Laptop.org website.
To get the ball rolling, Red Hat's OLPC team is releasing a
Software Developer's Kit. According to Daniel Berrange, a key developer
on the project, the aim of the SDK is to bundle together the typical
tools needed to create, debug, test and package applications for
deployment on the OLPC platform. The SDK will include:
- a Laptop simulator
- since many developers will not have direct access to the real laptop
hardware, the simulator provides a way to test both the OS platform
images, and applications on a normal desktop PC.
- an ABI verifier - this testing tool verifies that an application is
only linking against libraries that belong to the officially supported public API/ABI.
- a Packager tool - for packaging an application into a self-contained bundle suitable for deployment on the OLPC platform.
- a Compiler - a compiler & associated toolchain for building applications.
If this is your idea of fun, you can download the SDK here.'
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