IBM Picks Qtopia Over PalmOS And PocketPC

Bill Kendrick writes "ZDNet, Geek.com and others are reporting IBM's decision to choose Trolltech's Qtopia (the embedded version of their Qt library, used by the Sharp Zaurus PDA) in their forthcoming devices. See the announcement at Trolltech's website, and an earlier press release at IBM.com." Here's an earlier post about the new IBM reference platform.

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This was moderated as 'troll' but it makes a valid point. X really is showing its age, compare it with something like Display PostScript, for example, or try implementing something that looks like the Aqua GUI on it, and it just can't handle it. It doesn't even support transparency properly...
Running a windows terminal server client over a 128K ISDN line is faster (in most cases) than posting an X display over a 10Mbit network. When Microsoft is this much better than you, then it's time to take notice. I recall reading a while ago that there was a gtk+ port to the Linux framebuffer, designed for PDAs. This would be better than X in a small device (X is a resource hog, adn XF86 is far from stable.) I also agree that remote-X is a particularly inelegant solution, a remote gtk / Qt (i.e. draw the widgets using the remote commands) would be better (as happens with the GDI in TS).
Feel free to moderate this as Off-Topic, but lack of a modern windowing system is one of the biggest problems with Linux / *BSD in any form factor from PDA to desktop (although not in servers) and it is unlikely to go away.