An announcement from the OPIE team . . .

Being the first completely open source GUI platform for Linux-based PDAs, the Open Palmtop Integrated Environment (OPIE) presents its first official 0.9 release at this year's LinuxTag event being held June 6-9, 2002 in Karlsruhe, Germany.

The framework originates from TrollTech's Qtopia platform, thus being fully binary compatible. OPIE features an improved usability and extended applications, as well as new productivity software packages.

OPIE is currently available for Compaq iPAQs running the Familiar Linux distribution and the Sharp Zaurus 5000/5500. Additional platforms are in process.

OPIE can be seen in action at the KDE booth at LinuxTag, where the new KitchenSync framework for KDE synchronization will also be demonstrated. Further information can be acquired from the OPIE main page at http://opie.handhelds.org or it's german subsidiary at http://www.opie.info

 
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