To: linuxce-devel@linuxce.org, linux-arm@vger.rutgers.edu, Subject: Establishment of handhelds.org Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 14:03:40 -0700 From: Jim Gettys <jg@handhelds.org> The open source and research communities have expressed great interest in the Itsy pocket computer research project of Compaq's corporate research labs. With the recent appearance on the market of products with most of the attributes that made the Itsy pocket computer so exciting, both from Compaq (the iPAQ H3600) and other companies, we believe that the time is ripe for more serious work in the general open source software community. handhelds.org ------------- Compaq's research groups have established the handhelds.org web site to help provide a focus and aid development of open source software on handheld and wearable computers in the open source software community. The intent of this web site is to act as a repository and development aid for open source software for all platforms, including Compaq's H3600. We are providing FTP and CVS repositories for open source software for handheld and wearable computers. These services are provided from Palo Alto, California, on a high speed network. Please send us mail if you have a project that would be helped by hosting of your project. Handhelds.org services include: o A mirror of Russell King's ARM Linux site o Nicolas Pitre's SA11XX Arm Linux patches o ARM V4L GNU compiler cross development tool chain for Linux and BSD o Carlton University's ARM V4L RPM files o Linux on the Philips Nino o Anonymous read access CVS repositories - of our bootloader/monitor for embedded devices, which runs out of Flash and is relocatable to any part of RAM - of the Linux kernel containing the latest changes to support the iPAQ H3600 and Itsy - of the X Window System for the iPAQ H3600 and Itsy - of open source software we have written or changed for Itsy, as we port it to the iPAQ H3600 and make it available o FTP archives of tarballs of releases of this software (when available) o The usual links page Patches of changes for the iPAQ H3600 are already being submitted for inclusion in the standard distributions of the base software: these CVS pools are being made available to enable more rapid development. We will have succeeded when these independent duplicate source pools of base open source components become unneeded! Mailing Lists ------------- Please join the mailing list handhelds@handhelds.org to discuss open source software for handhelds and wearable computers. We have also established the "linux@handhelds.org" and "netbsd@handhelds.org" mailing lists to provide forums to discuss specifically Linux and NetBSD kernel issues on handheld computers. To subscribe to any of these mailing lists, visit: http://www.handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/handhelds http://www.handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux http://www.handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/netbsd or send mail to: handhelds-request@handhelds.org linux-request@handhelds.org netbsd-request@handhelds.org Further information ------------------- Mailing lists: handhelds@handhelds.org linux@handhelds.org netbsd@handhelds.org The Handhelds.org web site: http://handhelds.org Information about the Itsy hand held computer can be found at: http://www.research.compaq.com/wrl/itsy Information about the iPAQ H3600 Pocket PC product can be found at: http://www.compaq.com/products/handhelds/pocketpc/ For more information, please join one of the mailing lists mentioned above. Press inquiries should contact Eileen Quinn, eileen.quinn@compaq.com, at 408-285-9272. Credits ------- The Itsy Team: Compaq Western Research Lab: Joel Bartlett, Lawrence Brakmo, Keith Farkas, William Hamburgen, Marc Viredaz, Deborah Wallach Compaq Systems Research Center: Timothy Mann, Carl Waldspurger (now at VMWare) The Open Handheld Team: Compaq Cambridge Research Lab: George France, Jamey Hicks, Frank Bomba, Edwin Foo Compaq PAAD: Ed Gould, Tom Lawler, Dave Redell Compaq SEA: Blair Fidler, Charlie Flynn, Dirk van Hennekeler, Greg McCane Compaq CPCG: Jim Mann, Ken Nicholas Compaq Research: Jim Gettys, Dick Greeley, Ken Salsman Others: Self: Keith Packard, Nicolas Pitre, Steve Hill, Stan Thomas Our thanks to Kelly Martin who has been kind enough to make the domain handhelds.org name available. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/