Unofficial Qt Environment (and Sudoku) For the Kindle 36
An anonymous reader writes "I've just posted packages for installing a Qt-based platform on the Kindle 2 and DX devices, and a Sudoku game to go along with it. The Qt-based platform includes plugins I wrote for the e-ink display, the keyboard, and the five-way joystick thing — so it's a fully interactive and usable environment now. Soon I'll be adding a sample app with source code to go along with it."
Not sure about the conditions of use (Score:2, Insightful)
ACCEPTABLE USES: The Sudoku! Free Edition game is for personal use only, do not redistribute it. The Qt platform proof-of-concept plugins can be used with your own Kindle apps, personal or commercial.
HOSTING: Please do not re-host the install packages for the Qt platform except temporarily on the occasion that this site is not accessible. Refer people to this site instead. The uninstall packages can be re-hosted without limitations (to assist in any recovery, if it's ever required).
If he is trying to develop a commercial environment for the kindle, then he is going about it in a strange way.
Re:Quick Time (Score:2, Insightful)
A question of definitions (Score:1, Insightful)
According to Wikipedia, "A personal computer (PC) is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end user, with no intervening computer operator."
The iPad is not a personal computer, since the iPad *does* have an intervening computer operator (Apple) which defines which applications may or may not be installed on the iPad.
Since, according to the article, the Kindle is in fact "a Linux device with a ~533Mhz ARM processor" and with the addition of Qt being successfully compiled in it, doesn't that mean that the Kindle is in fact what the iPad is not ? A tablet personal computer ?