More geeky news (POSIX for S60)
The Nokia Symbian consortium announced that they will port some of the POSIX libraries to the Symbian OS …
Why this is good news?
Because all Unixes today are POSIX compliant, and all the Unix/Linux developers today, know how to program to the POSIX libraries, and all that people will know how to program to Symbian after it become POSIX compliant too …
And I think it will make possible the port/migration of many well known windows, and linux applications to our cell phones running symbian …
What does it means to us? well, lots of news apps to full the phones memory (probably lots of freewares too) …
And a big new market for software developers …
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I fully agree. Symbian OS development has been known with its “unusual” paradigm. Having POSIX will help a lot for beginners as well as developers who want to port UNIX’s codes.
Well done for Symbian! They’re listening to us…