Open C is a feature of the S60 operating system that makes porting applications written in C ridiculously easy. Read more about it on Forum Nokia:
Symbian recently introduced four of the basic POSIX libraries on Symbian OS. With Open C, S60 is implementing five additional C libraries built on open source projects including OpenSSL, GNOME, and LIBZ.
Open C helps optimize porting of open source and desktop applications to S60 on Symbian OS.
In order to kick start the developers creative juices Nokia will begin a content in July with a prize valued at $10,000. Join the Open C challenge if you think you have what it takes. A few open source applications I would like to see ported to S60:
- A robust PDF viewer that will never choke, regardless of how complicated my PDF is.
- Samba support so I can connect my shared network drives to my mobile phone. Music streaming anyone?
- VLC aka the media player that was created because the developers at Real over use the word buffering.
- FTP client
- A better PIM since the one built into S60 is quite honestly trash.
[Via: SymbianOne]