It's done, the new version v1.8 can now finally be stably published. In addition to the new OpenGL/OpenGL ES 2.0 support, we have carried out many other improvements, which has led to a significant increase in performance.
A list of all changes can be found here - Ubuntu and Debian packages are located in the download area.

This month we have started on the first experiments for the creation of Stereoscopic 3D GUIs with Disko. A video of the first results can be found here. We will report on any progress made on our Twitter page and we of course welcome all suggestions about this subject.

As promised before, we did implement OpenGL ES 2.0 / EGL support and the tests of disko-demos on an OMAP3530 board were successful. Our demo video demonstrates the possibility of the new backend. Currently you have to use the FBDEV backend with the new outputtype "ogl".

Finally we are very satisfied with the year 2010. We implemented new backends, optimized Disko and further companies decided to use our framework in their products. We are confident that the next year will be as successful as the last year. We wish all of you a Happy New Year and continued success with Disko.

We have added basic OpenGL/GLX support to Disko and have successfully tested the Disko demos with an NVidia graphics card and the proprietary drivers. Currently you have to use the X11 backend with the new outputtype "ogl". Now we are going to implement OpenGL ES 2.0 as well.

Additionally you can now use XV for video playback which enables full hardware supported video scaling.
Alpha blending between graphics and video layer is done by using Compiz and the XRender extension. For more information you can read our announcement mail.

We’re proud to announce that another port of Disko has been done.
Special thanks to the STMicroelectronics US region Field Application Engineers. They modified mmsmedia to use their AV drivers / player instead of Xine or Gstreamer. Based on STLinux, Disko in combination with DirectFB was successfully ported to STi71xx SoC with full hardware acceleration. The testing was done using the Disko demo application. The documentation of STLinux might be a good starting point for anyone interested in testing Disko. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us.

The awarded MediNet LCD TV15 hospital entertainment system uses software developed by BerLinux based on Linux and Disko to preserve a sustainable solution.

You can give the new gesture recognition and graphics capabilities a try with the new Demo. The Demo is available precompiled for Ubuntu and Archos 5 in addition to the source code.

To speed up the development of Disko as one of the very few up-to-date and really free GUI frameworks for embedded Linux, we want to open ourselves broader towards the community. Therefore we’ve setup a new mailing list. We will, at first by way of trial, be at your beck and call for questions, suggestions, or criticism via IRC on channel #disko at irc.freenode.net. We would be especially happy about all kinds of contribution and articles concerning products using Disko.

Application software for embedded devices becomes increasingly complex and the demands on the UI design rise, therefore an integrated treatment of hardware and software at an early stage will be the precondition for a successful product development.

BerLinux on the Embedded World 2010

Meet us at the “Embedded World” in Nürnberg, March 2nd-4th. You’ll find us at the Arrow stand in fair hall 12. For appointments please send an email to info@berlinux-solutions.de

This engine qualifies Disko, among other, for native X11 support and Linux framebuffer support.

Furthermore Disko 1.6 adds Flash support via the swfdec library, SIP support via pjsip and minisip, and GStreamer support to add an alternative the xine library and to add the TI Codecs supplied for the DSP.

Last but not least we did some porting, which involves, besides the ports to OMAP and TI DaVinci the more