Mozilla Corp., Arm Ltd, MontaVista Software Inc. and four other companies are trying to extend the market for a new category of devices, a combination between a smartphone and a laptop.
The seven
companies are collaborating on an open-source Linux based platform that includes chip design, operating system and several applications. They hope this platform will make the work of hardware developers much easier, when building devices resembling Nokia's N800 web tablet. The device on which the companies are working is smaller than a laptop but bigger than a smartphone, an intermediary between the two. It will not include cellular capabilities, but WiFi.
The Beagle Board is a low-cost, fan-less single-board computer based on Texas Instruments' OMAP35x device family, with all of the expandability of today's desktop machines, but without the bulk, expense, or noise.
The Beagle Board is a low-cost, fan-less single-board computer based on Texas Instruments' OMAP35x device family, with all of the expandability of today's desktop machines, but without the bulk, expense, or noise.
Debian/ARM developer Vincent Sanders has published a detailed, technical guide to booting ARM Linux. Sanders was sponsored by UK single board computer designer and ARM Linux consultancy Simtec in the project, and assisted by ARM Linux creator Russell King
<sep/>has published a how-to about installing Debian (or another Linux distribution) on the open-source QEMU emulator. When run on newish AMD-based PCs, the setup can outperform actual hardware development<sep/>