[ Thanks to Tomás
Marek for this link. ]
“The Opie project has reached its 1.0 milestone, offering a
standardized Linux-based platform for a variety of handheld
devices.“The Open Palmtop Integrated Environment (Opie) project has
announced that the Opie 1.0 milestone has been reached, and the
system is available now. OPIE is a GNU/Linux-based software package
designed for portability across a large number of handheld devices
from multiple manufacturers.“Opie began as an offshoot of Trolltech’s Qtopia Linux-based
system used on the Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 and other devices. The
Qtopia system is a handheld-targeted version of Qt, Trolltech’s
cross-platform development system, which is also the basis for Free
Software projects such as the KDE Project, as well as the Opera web
browser. Because Qt and Qtopia are both available under the GNU
General Public License (GPL), the Opie team chose to take the
available codebase and enhance it to make it richer and port it to
more devices. As is common for Free Software projects, Opie has
been available for some time, despite only just reaching official
1.0 status…”