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Today's Highlights from LinuxWorld

As the LinuxWorld trade show continues in San Francisco, lots of announcements and events are arriving, although there are some rumblings about the show catering too much to the establishment. There is an Installfest going on, where volunteers are building Linux-based systems for needy schools. If you remember the gOS, which was the Linux OS inside the $199 Wal-Mart gPC, it is now reaching out to Google Gadgets, and preloads WINE for users who want to reach out to Windows applications. There are also several awards being given to some of the innovative products at the show. Here's the upshot.

gOS, which many people will remember as the Linux OS that debuted in the $199 Wal-Mart gPC and NetBooks, has announced the details of the newest version of its Linux operating system for consumers, called gOS 3 Gadgets. There is a beta version of it here.  gOS 3 Gadgets launches Google Gadgets for Linux on startup. It will also preload WINE, LXDE, and other Google software for Linux. And it's worth noting there that WINE lets you reach out to Windows applications. There are some good screenshots and thoughts here.

Openmoko, the company behind the Neo FreeRunner open source-based mobile phones, has published the schematics for its Neo phones.

Unicon Systems has been awarded The LinuxWorld “Best Mobility Solution” Product Excellence Award for its Hermes, a next generation mobile device. Hermes offers a modular, customizable system featuring a 4.3-inch touch-screen integrated with a chip-on-film computer for mobile applications. It's aimed at OEMs.

Ingres CAFE, which is designed to enable fast implementation of a Java Development Environment (JDE) by minimizing configuration issues, has won a LinuxWorld Product Excellence Award.

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• gOS
• wine

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