On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 00:52:23 +0000, Stuart Henderson proclaimed...

> Obviously I don't speak for developers, but I'm not sure a device with
> a processor which looks around 10% the speed of a Zaurus, 8mb RAM, and
> undocumented wireless nic is going to be interesting enough to warrant
> the time a port takes..(read the slides about the Zaurus port for some
> information about what's involved in porting to a new machine, it is a
> lot of work: http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf).

Right, but the problem with a zaurus is that it doesn't lend itself to be a
gateway easily. Further, there's many insecure products out there that I'm
sure many of us are using for wireless access. Yes, I've created ad-hoc
networks, etc., but this is a low powered device with no moving parts.
Wouldn't it be nice if one of those vendors ported OpenBSD (or any other
BSD) for us? <grin>

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