AllLinuxDevices: Weekly Roundup: September 27, 2000

Welcome to the AllLinuxDevices weekly roundup for September 27, 2000 ESC prompted a spate of announcements we're still in the middle of sorting out. A visit to the front page is in order to catch up on all the news, but here are some of the highlights from the past week of ALD:

• TrollTech has partnered with Opera and Korean embedded firm PalmPalm to produce a wireless platform. We spoke with Havaard Nord, CEO of TrollTech, to learn a little more about his company's involvement through their Qt/Embedded toolkit:
  'TrollTech's Qt/Embedded: "Consumer-oriented finish" for Handheld Linux' is a look at TrollTech's quest to bring a GUI to Linux devices.
• Lineo received a $22.5 million investment from Metrowerks, as reported in this item:
  Motorola unit buys into Linux developer
• An Indian trust is working to bring StrongARM-based, wireless Linux handhelds to India, with a special focus on previously unwired rural areas. The machine will be based on open standards both in the SDK used to program for it, and the extensible design of the hardware itself.
• Busybox 0.47 was released, providing new functionality and some bugfixes to the package, which provides compact UNIX utilities for use on embedded systems.
• And wearables company Xybernaut announced a GPL'd suite of software for hands-free control of wearable PC's.

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