FMSoft's Open-source Plan

 

In September 2008, FMSoft, China’s largest code contribution company, began to set a open source project with more than 2,000,000 lines of code in open-source project, which has become the open-source industry's most sensational event, the browsing and downloading volume reached 3,000 Within one day, at one time make the server of FMSoft overload. 

 

This open-source project is mainly composed of 7 small projects. First of all, a grand presentation of the project is open-source project MiniGUI GPL-1.6.10 version. Not only can you download the library, resource packages, a simple sample package (mg-samples-1.6.10.tar.gz) of MiniGUI GPL-1.6.10, but also can download the application sample package “sample-1.6.10.tar.gz” for many industries (intelligent home, industrial control, medical equipment, set-top box solution, graphical feature example, text and picture example, and so on) and the game package “games-1.6.10.tar.gz”(including three classic games). For more information, please visit http://www.minigui.org/res.shtml.

 

Secondly, FMSoft provided a light-weight MiniGUI-based web browser for STBs and IPTVs. It is a successor of Dillo, and uses HTML engine and networking engine of Dillo. For more information, please visit http://www.minigui.org/app/app-browser.shtml.

 

Thirdly, FMSoft provided a project which implements OpenGL APIs on MiniGUI based on the famous open-source implementation of OpenGL: Mesa3D. This project uses MiniGUI as the graphics backend of Mesa3D. By using Mesa3D4MiniGUI, you can run OpenGL 3D applications on MiniGUI. For more information, please visit http://www.minigui.org/app/app-mesa3d.shtml.

 

From October on, FMSoft will continue to open source of the a GIS and an embedded browser mSpider V2.0 developed based on MiniGUI, and a set of PMP solution based on MiniGUI, Java AWT (Abstract Window Toolkit) localization realization on MiniGUI, and so on. Please pay more attention and expect it!