Cumulus

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Cumulus is available for different environments. The 'clasic' environment is Qtopia, mostly found on Sharp Zaurus models. However, Cumulus can also run on OPIE, a fork of Qtopia, which is found on both Zaurus devices running the OpenZaurus distribution and IPaq devices running the Familiar distribution.

The latest new environment is the Maemo OS to find on the Nokia Internet Tablets N800/N810. Cumulus is running here together with the Qt4.x C++ class library from Trolltech.

Due to differences in compilers, libraries and filesystem layout, there are separate packages for these environments. Please make sure you get the one suited for your system.

Please refer to our help page for instructions on how to install Cumulus.

Licence

Cumulus is being developed and released under the GPL licence. Expressed simply, this licence allows you the freedom to view and modify the source code of this program, as well as redistribute it so long as you grant others the same rights too. Please read the licence.

Cumulus is being offered to you free of charge in the form of both source code and binary packages.

Before using Cumulus, please read, understand and accept the licence and the warning displayed on first start of Cumulus:
Do not rely on this software program as your primary source of navigation. The operator is responsible for using official government charts and prudent methods for safe navigation. The information presented in this software program may be outdated or incorrect.

Cumulus 1.3.1

released: April 11, 2006

Cumulus 1.3.1 is the last release of Cumulus based on the old Qt2.x and Otopia resp. Opie environment. No further maintenance will be done on with line.

Cumulus 2.0.x

released: May 2008

Cumulus 2.0.x is the new line based on Qt4.x C++ class library from Trolltech. It can be installed on the Nokia Internet tablets N800/N810 running Maemo OS2008 or on a Linux desktop PC with X11/Qt4.x. Packages for the Maemo OS carry the names cumulus_2.x.y_armel.deb.

Snapshots

If you want to hack on Cumulus, port it to a new platform or if you just want to use the bleeding edge of Cumulus, you can use our daily source snapshots. These snapshot are made automatically each night, directly from our subversion source code repository. You will have to compile Cumulus yourself. There are some clues on how to do that in the root of the source dirrectory but you'll have to provide a suitable toolchain yourself. On a Linux desktop you need only a X11 environment and the Qt4.x C++ class libraries to build Cumulus.

Tow different snapshot files are provided. One with name CumulusQt2-snapshot.tbz for the old Qtopia and Opie environment, currently not more maintained and the other one with name CumulusQt4-snapshot.tbz for the current Qt4/X11 environment. From the second file you can very easy build Cumulus for the Linux desktop.

From time to time we will provide also installable snapshot packages for you to test. We know the problems concerning setup an own integration environment but a daily automatic building of packages is currently not possible. Inspect our snapshot area to see what is available. Please note that these packages may be unstable.

If you make any modifications to Cumulus, please consider sending us a patch and some explanation on what you modified. We may incorporate it into the main release if it looks usefull to a wider public. Please see the getting involved page for more information.

Subversion Repository

Cumulus sources are stored in a Subversion repository. The ULR to the repository is:

https://svn.kflog.org/svn/repos/cumulus

With the command svn co https://svn.kflog.org/svn/repos/cumulus/qt4 you can also make a checkout into your local environment. You need no special access rights for that.