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] http://tuxmobil.org/mobile_news_2003_12.html [2] http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ [3] http://tuxmobil.org/centrino.html [4] http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/ [5] http://www.elementcomputer.com/ [6] http://www.lycoris.com/ [7] http://xtops.de/xtops_paceblade.html [8] http://tuxmobil.org/tablet_unix.html [9] http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8011783890.html [10] http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT4481058519.html [11] http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5033717348.html [12] http://www.sdgsystems.com/catalog/ [13] http://tuxmobil.org/phones_linux.html [14] http://tuxmobil.org/xeron_sonic_pro_800mx.html You may find the daily TuxMobil News RSS/XML channel, the archiv and a news submission form at http://tuxmobil.org/newsfeed.html -- |=| Werner Heuser = Berliner Str. 122 = D-13187 Berlin = Germany |=| <wehe at tuxmobil.org> T. 0049 - (0)30 - 349 53 86 |=| http://TuxMobil.org UniX on Mobile Systems: HOWTOs,Software |*| This is no time for phony rhetoric -- Lou Reed