The rapid evolution of Trolltech’s Qtopia continues with the latest release of Qtopia 1.6, an embedded Linux application platform, and the announcement that there are now over 1000 3rd party applications available.
QTopia 1.6 Released
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For anyone who has been following Linux on Playstation, one of the limitations is the fact that it only has 32MB memory thus making XFree86 a terrible solution, there is a move to make qtopia and framebuffer available to replace the current solution.
http://playstation2-linux.com/projects/qtopia
http://playstation2-linux.com/projects/ps2gsfb
Once it has stablised, Playstation 2, with the lightweight GUI provided by qtopia, will be a good solution for anyone waiting a cheap but powerful internet device or basic desktop using the sony playstation.
Which Qtopia version does it use?
Is Qr embedded at version 3.1 like Qt?
Trolltech does nto put version numbers on their site =(
qtopia on zaurus 5500 is 1.5.0
is a way to buy handheld devices “blank”.
Imagine a geek store where you can say give me an “Arm based” PDA, afterwards you take it home load Linux on it, and the software you need (e.g. QTopia) and voila your own custom-configured PDA…. could be a blast…
Does any of you know someone who runs Linux/Opie/Qtopia on the Dell X5 pda ?
I’m thinking of buying one, but on hendhelds.org they only mention the iPaq’s…
The Dell is much cheaper and is based on (almost) the same hardware (intel 400mhz xscale cpu, 48mb strataflash rom… etc)
Would be nice if it was possible ’cause its much cheaper than the iPaq series 🙂
http://www.handhelds.org
opie.handhelds.org