Hanover, Germany — (press release excerpt) — Trolltech and Lisa Systems today announced a comprehensive Linux solution for the Compaq iPAQ palmtop computer, which will be demonstrated at CeBit. The solution includes: the Compaq iPAQ; an embedded Linux operating system; Trolltech's Qt/Embedded GUI application framework and windowing system; Trolltech's Qt Palmtop Environment, which includes personal… information management software, as well as games and other entertainment software; custom software components from Lisa Systems which include power management, Internet access, a powerful MPEG player; and a popular open-source web browser and file manager based on the KDE desktop environment. Several components of this solution have beeen created by Lisa Systems, including: power management for the Linux kernel; a KDE-based browser that includes css-, ssl-, and java-script functionality; scripts for telephony; web-access via a Nokia cardphone or via gprs-cellphone with serial cards; and an MPEG player.

Lisa Systems will be selling the Linux-based iPAQs in the German market. The solution is based on open source software, which means that because Trolltech's Qt is the basis of the KDE desktop environment, thousands of KDE-based Linux applications will be available for porting to the Lisa Systems solution.

“We have about 200,000 developers out there working with Qt, supplemented by a University program that?s educating 10,000 additional developers every year,” says Haavard Nord, Trolltech's CEO. “Developers creating Qt-based desktop applications can move them to the embedded market simply and efficiently — a huge advantage for Lisa Systems and their Linux-based iPAQ.”

Lisa Systems' Linux-based iPAQ will be demonstrated in Trolltech's booth (Hall 003, Stand C57) at CeBit, from March 21 to March 28, 2001.

 
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