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Is the Agenda VR3 Linux PDA Dead?

Posted by timothy on from the he'll-be-stone-dead-in-a-moment dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "LinuxDevices.com has published a news item about the uncertain future of Agenda Computing and their VR3 linux PDA. According to the article, some members of the Agenda developer community are continuing work on current projects, but many have switched to other projects such as the Sharp Zaurus. Apparently there is an Agenda Germany office which is still shipping the VR3s (including to the U.S.) and which has said that they are continuing VR3 development -- but's not clear whether that means software or device development. Looks like another cool linux device has bitten the dust. Sigh."

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  1. Oh well, a lesson learned by Erris · · Score: 2, Troll

    Their code base was not all GPL and the device was expensive. I remember some NDA type stuf on their page too. I was interested but those things kept me from going any further into it. Hardware vendors beware, software should be free. All of it.

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  2. Is the Agenda VR3 Linux PDA Dead? by evil_roy · · Score: 0, Troll

    No , but BSD is.

    Imagine a beowulf cluster of dead Agenda VR3's ....

    etc etc etc etc

  3. Wow... it wasn't because of it BW display... by croftj · · Score: 0, Troll

    I always figured it was because it had a lame monochrome display with a shoddy 16 levels of gray scale while the rest of the world had color!

    Now I find out that it's because of its shoddy OS and shoddy programming... Gosh... I guess even us Linux zealots can be wrong!

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