Fun with Qemu/Qt

Just for fun (and maybe profit), I thought I'd try and get Qt running
on the mini ARM Linux setup that I used for my tutorial at EclipseCon.
Low and behold, all I had to do was build it with the compiler I got
from CodeSourcery for ARM and it worked!

Now there isn't a whole lot of magic here. It's using the Linux framebuffer
device that draws to the screen. I'm not sure how it would look on a
real device but it looked might fine on qemu. Here's a snapshot of it
running on my laptop, which is now solidly Fedora. It's running the
browser demo app and has loaded my blog just before I posted this. It
took a little while to load and render, but again, it looked pretty
good.

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