Today's smartphone industry is dominated by Apple and Google with their iOS and Android operating systems. This leaves those wanting a true GNU/Linux experience wishing for a FOSS alternative. Maemo Leste tries to fill this gap and is built upon the foundation of Devuan.

Leste typically runs on the following devices:

We contribute to Leste through the development of userspace applications.

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Conversations

The default text messaging application.

Project details

• Protocols: SMS, XMPP, IRC, Slack, SIP, Skype
• Built with QtQuick (Qt 5.15), GLib, Telepathy, SQLite, CMake
• Responsive layout
• Search through message history
• Themes

Links

• conversations on Github

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Maemo (Offline) Translate

Mozilla created a browser extension called firefox-translations which translates webpages from one language to another without using a third-party service. The translation happens locally, in the browser, via language models created using machine-learning.

Since this browser extension is open-source, we wondered if he could port this translation engine to Maemo Leste for use as a standalone GUI application for quality offline translation. This meant porting and packaging the underlying machine learning technologies for low-powered ARM devices.

Project details

• Built on top of kotki, our in-house translation engine
  • Which in turn is built on top of bergamot, a project by the university of edinburgh
• Built with QtWidgets (Qt 5.15), CMake
• Offers both translations and transliteration (Cyrillic -> Latin)

Links

• kotki on Github
• maemo-translate on Github
• maemo-translate-data on Github

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NOMWeather

Weather application.

Project details

• 7-day forecast for temperature, wind
• Detect location via IPv4 lookup (or set location manually)
• Built with QtQuick (Qt 5.15), CMake

Links

• NOMWeather on Github