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 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