Hi,

Someone pointed out to me that Linux on Handheld (ie. Zaurus)
is based on OPIE - to gain speed.
http://opie.handhelds.org/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/

I was told that the Opie based applications will render directly on framebuffer and not need X-server.
This way the opie using linux will save resources and be faster. (Similar to OS-X or MOS being less complicated in drawing then X and faster this way)

Would it make sense to use a distribution using OPIE on EFIKA?

Cheers
Gunnar

Hi.

Wouldn't it be the same as just using QTopia (embedded)?


Best regards,
Johan

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Johan Dams, Genesi USA Inc.
Director, Software Engineering

Yep, I have a blog... PurpleAlienPlanet

My vote is to go and grab the latest release of DirectFB, the pre-release of Qtopia 4.4, and make sure you build the Qt/DirectFB module for output. Hopefully it'll be in the 4.4 release for real.

The problem with OPIE and all the other PDA toolkits around is they're all 4 or 5 years old and using ancient, unsupported versions of the Qt toolkit, or using totally-non-PDA-aware versions of GTK and GNOME.

Work from something modern, and you'll get there. You could build KDE without the desktop and run it on Qtopia Core - including most of the applications you want to run on a small PDA like a messaging client, since they are all baed on the Qt framework and not "weird standalone apps which talk proprietary and disparate protocols" - it's all abstracted behind Qt.

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Matt Sealey

Sounds good.

Would be real nice if someone could work on this for the EFIKA distro. A "swifter" EFIKA Linux/OS is still planned to be produced, right?

Cheers