TuxMobil-News 03/2004 (Easter Edition)

[Werner Heuser <Werner.Heuser@web.de>]

    Hello,

    the TuxMobil News digest for March 2004[1] has good news
    for Linux PDA, mobile phone and laptop users. Here is an
    extract of the most important or most interesting  messages.

    Werner Heuser



|=| Slashdot for WAP phones[2] is a Web page adapter that allows you to
    read Slashdot with a WAP-enabled mobile phone. More about
    WAP applications for Linux[3] at TuxMobil.

|=| More Linux PDAs available soon? According to SlashDot: "The Sharp
    Zaurus SL-6000L handheld, .., has finally made it to the U.S."[4].
    "NEC Develops Linux Tablet/PDA Hybrid"[5]. And finally
    Amida made the long announced Simputer Linux PDA available[6]. This
    survey of Linux PDA resellers[7], doesn't list these PDAs yet.

|=| JTAG for (Linux) PDAs: American Arium JTAG debugger gains graphical IDE[8].
    inAccess Networks JTAG tools (GPL) published issue 1.2[9]. If you
    need to disassemble a PDA to apply the JTAG connectors, here
    are some instructions and take apart pictures for different PDAs[10].

|=| PartBoot-USB the installation floppy for one spindle laptops
    version 1.6.6 was released[11]. Many other installation approaches
    for laptops are described in the Linux-Mobile-Guide[12].



    [1] http://tuxmobil.org/mobile_news_2004_03.html
    [2] http://www.fizzl.net/projects/sdwap.php
    [3] http://tuxmobil.org/phones_linux_wap.html
    [4] http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/01/0322253
    [5] http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=04/03/30/2327203
    [6] http://amidasimputer.com/
    [7] http://tuxmobil.org/reseller.html
    [8] http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2591907486.html
    [9] http://www.inaccessnetworks.com/projects/ianjtag
    [10] http://tuxmobil.org/disassembly_pda.html
    [11] http://www003.upp.so-net.ne.jp/tshiono/partboot-usb/
    [12] http://tuxmobil.org/howtos.html


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