Opie GUI/PIM Project Reaches 1.0

Posted by michael on Monday August 4, 2003 @06:56PM from the no-wincing dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Open Palmtop Integrated Environment (Opie) project has announced its first 1.0 release. Having been forked from TrollTech's Qtopia environment, Opie has evolved into the most sophisticated free and open graphical user interface for Linux based embedded devices and PDAs. Opie features a sophisticated personal information (PIM) framework as well as several other productivity apps, extended multimedia capabilities and document model, networking and communication tools as well as multi language support for more than a dozen languages. Based on common industry standards like XML, Obex, IrDa et. al. Opie is capable of interacting with lots of devices ranging from cell phones to server backends. Opie is highly optimzed for mobile devices and tries to support the user with shortcuts and ease of use."

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but does that mean by toddhunter · 2003-08-04 19:00 · Score: 4, Funny

One day they will be announcing their second 1.0 release?
1. Re:but does that mean by Zork+the+Almighty · 2003-08-04 19:57 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  You never know. They might just have a second 1.0 release in a couple of hours, since the editors are so lazy and all.
  
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Will Opie work with this? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-04 19:11 · Score: 3, Funny

>>Opie is capable of interacting with lots of devices ranging from cell phones to server backends.
Will Opie interact with this cell phone?
Re:about Qtopia by pantherace · 2003-08-04 22:55 · Score: 2, Funny

It should be just the same. OPIE is a fork of Qtopia (QT/Embedded ... many other names), and one of the goals is binary compatibility. I believe that OpenZaurus (which primarily uses OPIE) has the same package as qtopia, probably a bit newer and built from source.