[poky] Poky 3.0 (Blinky) Released

From: Richard Purdie <richard@openedhand.com>
Date: Wed Aug 01 2007 - 06:34:33 EDT

It gives me great pleasure to announce a new release of Poky, version
3.0 (Blinky).

There are lots of new features in this although the biggest change is no
doubt the introduction of the new look and feel known as Sato along with
the new desktop, panel and Pimlico application “Tasks”.

A rough summary of the changes is:

      * Sato 0.1 - simple fast GTK+ based PDA/Smartfone fully featured
        theme and application framework
      * Latest Pimlico packages (Contacts, Dates and the new Tasks)
      * Matchbox Panel-2 and Matchbox Desktop 2
      * Improved customised version of Puzzles
      * bitbake 1.8 series based - faster and more efficient builds than
        ever before including multi-process build support
      * Latest X.org X11 packages (X11R7.2 based)
      * Package Epoch support
      * Standalone/External/Prebuilt toolchain support
      * Improved QEMU images including distcc support and improved
        integration
      * Introduction of ‘formfactor’ - physical hardware abstraction
        layer
      * GTKTerm replacing rxvt
      * Linux 2.6.21 Kernel
      * GTK Input Method support
      * Latest oprofile including support for oprofileui, a remote
        control interface for oprofile.
      * Improved/new profiling tools such as exmap and valgrind (qemux86
        only)
      * Addition of gdbserver for remote debugging
      * Improved ease of image control/creation/customisation through
        FEATURES
      * Experimental Nokia N800 and FIC-GTA01 support
      * Experimental bootable x86 cd image support

The release tarball:
http://pokylinux.org/releases/poky-blinky-3.0.tgz

Images:
http://pokylinux.org/releases/blinky-3.0/

The Poky website (includes screenshots):
http://pokylinux.org/

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