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Developers Go Mobile: Opie Releases Free SDK
An anonymous reader writes "The Open Palmtop Integrated Environment (Opie) project to develop a free graphical application environment for Linux handhelds and webpads has released a software development kit (SDK) based on the KDevelop3 open source IDE. The Opie SDK provides tools for developing open, professional-class applications for Linux based mobile and embedded devices running under the Opie platform, according to Opie hacker Oliver 'Groucho' Fels. In case you're wondering, Opie is a fork of Trolltech's Qtopia, a palmtop application stack popularized by Sharp's Zaurus line and other PDAs and handhelds. 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, and support for more than a dozen languages."
Canopy Group == Umbrella Corp.?
Woohoo, zombie dogs!
Seriously though...I fail to see anything on their feature list that stands out as terribly innovative. And the fact that they are "including an easy to use access API" actually puts me off a bit...PDAs don't have very much in the way of system resources and I'd be much more impressed if it was tiny+fast.
That or if it just turned everyone into zombies. That would be impressive. Not very fun, but impressive.
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