I'm copying this message to everyone who has contacted me expressing interest in the Debian Zaurus project. I apologize if anyone has been duplicated; I made a quick manual pass over the list of addresses and removed any duplicates. I also removed anyone that I knew to be a Debian developer, since an announcement is being sent to debian-devel-announce.
A new mailing list has been created[1], [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can subscribe by sending mail with 'subscribe' in the subject to [EMAIL PROTECTED] See http://lists.debian.org/ for more information. It is my hope that this list will become a forum for organizing efforts toward bringing Debian to the Zaurus. I have been in contact with several of you who have been independently working on this, as I have (as time permits), and it is clear that we would benefit from being able to organize our efforts on a public mailing list. Soon, perhaps in a few days when those interested have had time to subscribe, I'll post an update with everything that I know about the status of the various projects. These include, at least: - getting more handheld-oriented software packaged in Debian, including embedded-friendly desktop environments, applications and system tools - creating a full-featured bootable Debian image for the Zaurus/SL-5xxx, to run as its primary OS - projects to run Debian or otherwise use Debian packaged software as an adjunct to a Zaurus running a mini-distribution such as OpenZaurus or the stock software - doing similar things for handheld PCs other than the Zaurus There has been a lot of interest in these efforts, and I have not been able to devote as much time as they deserve in recent months, but this is starting to change, and there are many others who are actively working. If you are working on a project of your own, and could send a brief email either to myself or to the mailing list, I will include the information that you provide in my summary. I hope that many of you will join us on debian-handheld, and I look forward to continuing development efforts. -- - mdz [1] more accurately, the old mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] has been renamed and expanded to encompass many kinds of handheld devices, which are capable of running Debian themselves, or have integration software which runs on a Debian system. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
