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Well, search your favourite P2P network for "MVC-630F.JPG" and derivatives of. That should get you going.

Searching the web works even better!

So does this mean it's now possible to develop software to run on the TuxScreen, in its unmodified form? I never did get around to installing Linux on it...maybe just developing Inferno apps would be easier.

That's odd, I thought for sure I included the link, O-well, TuxScreen, but sorry they are all out according to the web page, Sold Out, your best bet it to look around for someone who wants to sell them. I have two, but I'm not looking to sell them.

There are other Linux based phones out. One of them is SNOM. It is a VoIP phone as opposed to the TuxScreen which plugs in to the standard telephone jack. The TuxScreen has a 640x480 color screen while the SNOM has a tiny LCD window. One of my friends found the SNOM phone while browsing the web and I don't know anything more than what the web page says.

That's odd, I thought for sure I included the link, O-well, TuxScreen, but sorry they are all out according to the web page, Sold Out, your best bet it to look around for someone who wants to sell them. I have two, but I'm not looking to sell them.

There are other Linux based phones out. One of them is SNOM. It is a VoIP phone as opposed to the TuxScreen which plugs in to the standard telephone jack. The TuxScreen has a 640x480 color screen while the SNOM has a tiny LCD window. One of my friends found the SNOM phone while browsing the web and I don't know anything more than what the web page says.

There are many efforts to putting Linux (and other UNIXes) in places with limited amounts of space.

handhelds.org is all about running Linux on ipaqs. Space is a concern, of course, so various things are done. The conversion to Busybox has recently been made, saving almost 2MB of space as I recall.

There's also uClibc. The smallest I've ever seen glibc is about 1.5-2MB. uClibc clocks in at about 200-700kB. That's small. This is used when you just don't have space available, such as on the TuxScreen with only 4MB of bootable flash and on many rescue disks and floppy based Linux systems.

Remember you don't want to cut corners all the time. On your desktop, it's probably best to run the full-blown GNU utilities. They have extra options that, while not commonly used, have obviously proven useful enough times to be included.

However, if you only have 16-64MB to work in, and you want to have lots of other stuff, busybox is a very viable option that I would reccomend if you have trouble fitting stuff in. Don't use it when you've got gigs of hard drive space to play with though.

Finally something that I can run on my Tuxscreen telephone. Great job guys!

StrongARMs are highly integrated chips. One piece gets you all sorts of stuff up to things like LCD controllers. They're not exactly upgradable and usually not a do-it-yourself project to build one from scratch.

However if you do still feel like building a StrongARM based machine from scratch (very difficult, I hope you're into board fabbing and have the gear to solder lots of exotic surface mount components), you might want to check out the LART.

If starting from something premade is OK with you, there's an excellent developer community for Linux on iPAQs at handhelds.org. The iPAQ has a huge expansion bus that you could probably use to do neat things with. Of course some hardware hacking would still be required. You can probably get one with a broken batt and/or screen off eBay pretty cheap.

Another option for a premade unit is the Lucent/Phillips IS2630 screenphone (Shannon). There's a project to run Linux on them called TuxScreen. Unfortunately they don't have any more of them for sale, but you might be able to find someone who bought more than one or who is done with theirs that's willing to sell you one. This is a pretty sweet phone, and there's lots of docs on modding it, but it's sure not a PC.

Looks like the DNS is screwy again, go to www.tuxscreen.net, with out the www the server doesn't put you on the correct page.

...head over to TuxScreen.net. Be quick there are only a couple of hundred left. They are $99 each. Have Fun.

Oh yeah, here's the link to purchase one. Tim says they still have more than 200 phones left at $99 each (but read all the way down the page; you may want to have him unlock the flash chip and/or reflash with a Linux-compatible bootloader for you, which costs a few bucks more)

PicoGUI's still in need of developers, authors, and artists. We need developers to write PicoGUI applications and help debug/extend/port pgserver. We need authors to write more documentation. We could even use some artists (preferably with some programming knowledge) to make some more themes. If you're interested in helping, join the pgui-devel mailing list or stop by the #picogui IRC channel on irc.openprojects.net.

'rneches' has clearly looked at the current market of available laptops. Prolly only missing out on a few low-profile products.

This is an 'Ask SlashDot' posting. Why are people posting additional questions rather than useful tidbits of information.

He has specific goals in mind for the laptop of his dreams (goals that I happen to share), why would you suggest a piece of hardware that violates 90% of his wish list as a solution?

That ends my rant for now and here are a series of links I have dug out of other postings.
PSI_Linux Psion hardware / Linux software project.
Sceptre - Hardware retailer
AMPRO nifty smallish hardware
IBM X-series laptops
Linux-Laptop.net lot's of docs on making laptop hardware work with Linux
TuxScreen strange hardware hacking project
Cyberresearch hardware retailer

Why not get a TuxScreen ? With a Strong Arm processor + 16MB EDO/4MB flash, touch screen, PCMCIA/serial... for just $99. It is a dream for any geek.... (It has also been slashdotted.)

It is not only hackable, in fact, please hack it... It sells at a price probably lower than the parts (est to be around $300)!!! Kudos to Tim Riker from tuxscreen.

Sorry, looks like slashcode isn't used to my url's, I seem to like to quote things: http://www.tuxscreen.net
Try that one...

It does have an X10 interface.
See this link...

Check this link: Screenshots That sure looks like linux to me!

does this device have an X10 interface? according to the hardware doesnt say specifically, but when you look at the logo on their index.html has a little subscript '10' next to the "X" in Tu X

Anyone care to comment? Still a very interesting little device...

does this device have an X10 interface? according to the hardware doesnt say specifically, but when you look at the logo on their index.html has a little subscript '10' next to the "X" in Tu X

Anyone care to comment? Still a very interesting little device...

Each of these notices of a hardware vendor dropping a product are good news for the Linux Hackers out there. I've got an I-Opener running Linux and a Compaq IA for that matter, which is still a shipping product.

I'm also deeply involved in the TuxScreen project. This is a discontinued WebPhone that used to sell for $650 running Inferno. The remaining discontinued units are now available to Linux hackers everywhere for $99 usd. ARM Linux is now running on the devices, so they at least work as an X terminal.

The challenge with each of these discontinued hardware "bargins" is to get enough technical details from the original vendor to make them useful to Linux Hackers.

Linux on your phone, now that's hot ;-)

Good luck and happy hacking!