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mmooss
As usual, when you make the effort to see them for what they are really like, people never live up to their reputations :)

  <deraadt> wow, mickey is fixing cats.  cut, pull, twist, tie, insert, sew, right?
  <deraadt> meow meeeeooooow MRREOEAAWOOOWOWWWWWWWOWOOWOW
  <deraadt> :-)
uticus
> Don't be startled by this odd-looking name, it will make sense when you reach the end of the story.

> This is the story of OpenBSD on the Sharp Zaurus systems. Because of its length, I have decided to split it in two parts.

> OpenBSD/cats: the enabler

> OpenBSD/zaurus (to be published 20260513)

...I will be visiting again in 5 days. Then, I will be searching eBay for a Zaurus...

http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/zaurus.html

lormayna
When I was a poor student, Zaurus was probably my biggest tech gadget dream. Unfortunately it was rare and expensive and I never had the opportunity to play with it.
bzzzt
It was a hype in the Linux community at the time. Around that time I moved from study to job and had a bit of cash to spare. Couldn't resist a good deal for a second hand SL-5500, but I think it was ahead of its time and the potential not fully realized. It was also not really open source. You could compile your own distro, but nothing ever produced by the Zaurus community would ever offer as much functionality as the proprietary Linux desktop from Sharp on the 5500 at least.
malicka
I have a Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 I’ve wanted to get running a modern kernel for a while. Ah, I always regretted not getting on the CL’s with this kind of support!
a96
> But in the early 2000s, smartphones did not exist, Handheld PC would not fit in your pockets unless you were André the Giant, and PDAs were not necessarily usable for that role, either lacking good displays, or good keyboards, or good expansion facilities allowing a GPRS modem to be used, or simply decent battery life.

Forgot about the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_Communicator line?