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OpenBSD/zaurus

OpenBSD/zaurus is an effort to make OpenBSD run on several PDAs of the Sharp Zaurus family.

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The current port maintainer is Dale Rahn (drahn@openbsd.org). Others are definitely welcome to contribute!

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History:

Shortly after Sharp unveiled its first Zaurus machines, some OpenBSD developers started dreaming of running OpenBSD on it, to have the smallest possible ssh-capable machine!

After the OpenBSD/cats was completed in order to benefit from a good ARM development platform, work on the Zaurus hardware, initially targetting the C-860 and C-3000 models, started in 2004.

Current status:

As the port is still in its early stages, development is pretty hectic at the moment. The C-3000 machines boot multiuser, X11 runs, and device support is being constantly improved. Most PCMCIA/CF devices work (such as wireless/ethernet cards), as well as host USB on the C-3000, and the keyboard and touchscreen are supported by X11.

Projects (in no particular order):

Supported hardware:

At the moment, the following Zaurus models are supported:

  • Zaurus SL-C3000

    USB Devices (on the C3000)

    PCMCIA/CF Devices (on the C3000)

    Getting and installing OpenBSD/zaurus:

    There is no official OpenBSD/zaurus release yet.

    Snapshots are made available from time to time, in this location as well as in a few mirrors. Here are the OpenBSD/zaurus snapshot installation instructions as well.

    Supported platforms
    www@openbsd.org
    $OpenBSD: zaurus.html,v 1.20 2005/03/24 13:27:59 uwe Exp $