TuxMobil: TuxMobil News Archive 2001

December

05 Dec: ALLNETDEVICES: LINUX HANDHELD CONTEST ANNOUNCED
LinuxToday: "The schedule will run until February 11, 2002 and will offer a variety of prizes including $10,000 in cash, handhelds, laptops and television and stereo equipment. More information is available from the vendors Web site." COMPLETE STORY

20 Nov: ZDNET: HP SACRIFICES LINUX HANDHELDS
LinuxToday: "One PDA, code-named Calypso, was to run on a 133MHz StrongARM processor and include a monochrome touch-screen and an MP3 player. Rumours of a low-end HP Linux PDA have circulated recently, and the model was scheduled for release in late November or early December, according to the engineer. It was to have been sold under the Jornada brand." COMPLETE STORY

20 Oct: Asterix versus MobiliX - MobiliX Still Standing
TuxMobil: Three months ago MobiliX has got a request to withdraw its name. Until now the legal representative of the trademarks for Asterix and Obelix has not taken any further legal action yet. According to the lawyer of MobiliX this doesn't provide final security. But at least there is no possibility anymore to close the website immediately. This success is caused by the strong support of the Linux community. Many people have written to Les Editions Albert Rene (Paris) the holder of the trademarks. Other people have provided a list of projects with similar names ending on "iX". This list has grown quite big, therefore it's not continued anymore.
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16 Oct: Presentation: Linux on PDAs
TuxMobil: Werner Heuser author of Linux on the Road is doing a presentation about "Linux on PDAs" (in German, 31.October 14:00 - 15:00) at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2001 30.October - 1.November - Frankfurt (Germany)

19 Sep: v3.10 of the Linux-Mobile-Guide
TuxMobil: v3.10 of the Linux-Mobile-Guide is out. Changes: added link to GromitKC winmodem page, some additions on CD drives, link to GPRS-HOWTO added, some more suggestions how to use `noflushd', Braille with iPAQ, GGI with iPAQ, abstract rewritten, minor changes
11 Sep: Braille for the iPAQ Linux PDA
TuxMobil: Stéphane Doyon wrote at the iPAQ mailing list: "We (Nicolas Pitre and myself) have successfully ported BRLTTY to the iPaq and tested the setup by interfacing with a BrailleLite 18 through the serial port. BRLTTY is a program that allows access to the Linux text-mode console using various brands of Braille displays."
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11 Sep: GGI on the iPAQ PDA
TuxMobil: Tobias Hunger from the Berlin-Consortium has written the source of GGI on the iPAQ
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01 Sep: Sharp Launched SL-5000 Linux PDA
TuxMobil: Sharp launched its personalmobile tool, the SL-5000, which combines the functions of a mobile phone with a Web-enabled PDA. The device runs on the Linux OS (EmbediX, kernel 2.4) combined with Personal Java.
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06 Aug: Asterix versus MobiliX
TuxMobil: In June 2001 MobiliX has got a request from the German legal representative of Les Editions Albert Rene (Paris) holder of the trademarks "Asterix" and "Obelix" , to unregister the name MobiliX, otherwise they would take legal action.
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05 Jul: Presentation: Linux on PDAs
TuxMobil: Werner Heuser author of "Linux on the Road" is doing a presentation about "Linux on PDAs" (in German) at the LinuxTag 2001 5. - 8. July - Stuttgart (Germany) Besides the presentations I can answer questions about Linux on laptops and PDAs. In turn you may help me to complete the TuxMobil PCMCIA survey , please bring your PCMCIA cards with you, whether they are working with Linux or not. If not I will try to assist you in getting them to work.

18 Jun: OSDN - Open Source Handhelds Summit
OSDN: OSDN will hold a two-day summit, June 18 - 19, 2001 in Austin, Texas on Open Source application development for handhelds. This summit will look at some of the specific challenges in this new area of development including: interface design, networking, embedded systems and application porting. COMPLETE STORY
29 Jun: Presentations: Linux on PDAs - Linux on Laptops
TuxMobil: Werner Heuser author of "Linux on the Road" is doing presentations about "Linux on PDAs" and "Linux on Laptops" at Linux 2001 - Manchester -UK 29.6. - 1.7.2001 Besides the presentations I can answer questions about Linux on laptops and PDAs. In turn you may help me to complete the TuxMobil PCMCIA survey , please bring your PCMCIA cards with you, whether they are working with Linux or not. If not I will try to assist you in getting them to work.

13 May: v3.9 of the Linux-Mobile-Guide
TuxMobil: v3.9 of the Linux-Mobile-Guide is out. Changes: survey of USB ethernet devices added, kernel configuration (example) moved into a separate WWW page, minor changes

30 Apr: OSDN - Open Source Handhelds Summit
OSDN: OSDN will hold a two-day summit, April 30 - May 1, 2001 in Austin, Texas on Open Source application development for handhelds. This summit will look at some of the specific challenges in this new area of development including: interface design, networking, embedded systems and application porting. COMPLETE STORY
04 May: Presentations: Linux on PDAs / Linux on Laptops
TuxMobil: Werner Heuser author of "Linux on the Road" is doing presentations about "Linux on PDAs" and "Linux on Laptops" (both in German) at the 3. Braunschweiger Linux-Tage 4. - 6.5.2001 - Braunschweig (Germany)

26 Mar: v3.7 of the Linux-Mobile-Guide
TuxMobil: v3.7 of the Linux-Mobile-Guide is out. Changes: Added new URL of Linux on Laptops by Kenneth E. Harker, improved input device section (imwheel, akdaemon, hotkeys), added link to mirrordir, started survey of PDA distributions, minor changes.
21 Mar: v3.2 of the Linux-Infrared-HOWTO
TuxMobil: v3.2 of the Linux-Infrared-HOWTO is out. Changes: obsolet references to irmanager, /dev/irnine and wrong device numbers removed, changes according to kernel 2.4.x applied, extensive proof-reading and testing, new links to e-Squirt added, new chapter about module options, new chapter about null modem connection, sections reordered and cleaned up, other links updated.

07 Feb: v3.6 of the Linux-Mobile-Guide
TuxMobil: v3.6 of the Linux-Mobile-Guide is out. VAIO chapter rewritten (new links to Jog-Dial and camera drivers, mailing list, installation methods), link to ACER HOWTO added, minor changes. COMPLETE STORY

11 Jan: v3.5 of the Linux-Mobile-Guide
TuxMobil: v3.5 of the Linux-Mobile-Guide is out. New chapter about theft protection, new chapter about kernel 2.4, some URLs corrected, minor changes. COMPLETE STORY

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