Re: Opie 1.2.3 Release Announcement

Congratulations for the great work done on OPIE!

Regards,
Nicolas.

On 7/27/07, Dan Williams <drw_at_handhelds.org> wrote:
>
> The Opie Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
> version
> 1.2.3 of the Open Palmtop Integrated Environment, a comprehensive user
> environment and application suite for portable devices running Linux.
>
> Version 1.2.3 builds upon the last stable version (1.2.2, released May
> 2006), and provides a rich graphical user environment and comprehensive
> selection of applications. Applications include personal information
> management (PIM), media players for many different audio and video
> formats,
> viewers for images and electronic documents, games and many utilities for
> file transfer, connectivity with other computers, etc. As with previous
> versions, Opie continues to provide binary compatibility with applications
> developed for Trolltech's Qtopia environment.
>
> Opie supports synchronization with desktop computers using Qtopia Desktop,
> and
> more recently OpenSync. OpenSync is a universal synchronisation framework
> which is usable through KDE's KitchenSync tool. OpenSync frontends for
> GNOME are also in development.
>
> Like most Linux software, Opie is able to run on a wide variety of
> platforms.
> Opie has direct hardware support for Hewlett Packard iPAQ, Sharp Zaurus,
> Yopy,
> Siemens SIMpad devices, and now also various Palm handhelds. Opie is
> provided
> in several Linux distributions including Familiar.
>
> Summary of changes since version 1.2.2:
>
> * Added support for the Palm Tungsten T/T2/T3/T5/C/E/E2, LifeDrive, TX,
> Zire
> 71/72, Treo 600/650/680/700w/700p/750/755p and Foleo handhelds
> * Improved support for some newer iPAQ models using the Linux 2.6 kernel
> * Improved HTC Universal handheld support
> * Opie-Remote: added integrated remote learning and improved usability
> * Many, many bugfixes and minor improvements
>
> For full details on the changes in this release and previous releases,
> please
> see the Opie change log at http://opie.handhelds.org/docs/changelog .
>
> Getting Opie
>
> Source code for all software is available on the Opie website at the
> following
> location: http://opie.handhelds.org/feed/source/stable
>
> Binary packages for version 1.2.3 will be provided with the next versions
> of
> Familiar and very likely other Linux distributions. For more information
> about
> Familiar, please visit the Familiar homepage (see Links section below).
>
> Links
>
> * Opie Homepage, http://opie.handhelds.org
> * Familiar Linux, http://familiar.handhelds.org - Linux distribution for
> HP iPAQ handheld PDAs
> * KDE, http://kde.org - Desktop environment which includes the KitchenSync
> synchronization tool
> * Trolltech, http://trolltech.com - creators of Qtopia and Qtopia Desktop,
> a cross-platform, desktop PIM application
> * OpenSync, http://www.opensync.org - a modular synchronization framework
> for Linux systems
>
> Contact
>
> Dan Williams, drw_at_handhelds.org - Opie 1.2.3 Release Coordinator
>
> For more information on contacting the Opie Team, please visit:
> http://opie.handhelds.org/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/Contact
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Received on Sat Jul 28 2007 - 05:05:17 EDT