TuxMobil News 12/2003

Hello,

the last TuxMobil News digest for 2003[1] has again good news
for Linux PDA, mobile phone and laptop users. Here is an
extract of the most important messages.

Werner Heuser <wehe_at_tuxmobil.org>


|=| The ndiswrapper[2] now supports Intel's WLAN PRO/Wireless 2100 chipset,
which is part of their Centrino(TM) technology[3]. Besides the
commercial DriverLoader[4] from Linuxant therefore an Open Source
solution is also available.

|=| Element Computer offers a TabletPC[5] pre-equipped with the
Lycoris Desktop/LX Tablet Edition for Linux[6]. This is the second
commercial TabletPC with Linux, since the one made by
PaceBlade[7]. More about Linux on TabletPCs is at TuxMobil[8].

|=| Linux on cell phones is still becoming more and more popular.
Japan's #1 cellular carrier NTT DoCoMo has adopted Linux for 3G phones[9].
Samsung debuts Linux-powered smartphone in China[10]. A Chinese company
based in Shanghai named 'E28' has quietly been selling Linux-based
smartphones in China since August[11]. And SDG-Systems provides
a driver for the Pretec GPRS CF-Card for the Zaurus and Yopy Linux PDAs.
More about Linux on and with mobile cell phones at TuxMobil[13].

|=| TuxMobil has got the first report about Linux on a laptop
with 64-bit CPU[14]. A Xeron Sonic Pro 800MX with an AMD64 chip.


[1] [url]http://tuxmobil.org/mobile_news_2003_12.html[/url]
[2] [url]http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/[/url]
[3] [url]http://tuxmobil.org/centrino.html[/url]
[4] [url]http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/[/url]
[5] [url]http://www.elementcomputer.com/[/url]
[6] [url]http://www.lycoris.com/[/url]
[7] [url]http://xtops.de/xtops_paceblade.html[/url]
[8] [url]http://tuxmobil.org/tablet_unix.html[/url]
[9] [url]http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8011783890.html[/url]
[10] [url]http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT4481058519.html[/url]
[11] [url]http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5033717348.html[/url]
[12] [url]http://www.sdgsystems.com/catalog/[/url]
[13] [url]http://tuxmobil.org/phones_linux.html[/url]
[14] [url]http://tuxmobil.org/xeron_sonic_pro_800mx.html[/url]


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