Hi Folks,
As I stated in the subject, I do realize that it is 2022, 18 years after the SL-6000 was released, and I was heavily involved with LINUX, embedded systems in general, as well as developing my own operating systems, graphical and development environments, and even spent almost a year working in somewhat of a private sub-contacting role to define and develop what would eventually become "Android" it seems for LG, through the SavaJe organization. (The company was sold off to Sun Microsystems around 2004 or so, and we had produced the world's fastest JAVA system, which was a completely original, novel, and somewhat "radical" effort some could say, to produce a JAVA operating system and environment for handhelds and "phones", that was standalone, and was the entire operating system as well as a complete user environment, requiring no other OS underneath it.
Since the JAVA source code was obtained from Sun Microsystems in the early days of SavaJe, it was very fitting and appropriate that the entire asset-set and source code was ultimately returned to the domain of Sun Microsystems, and somewhat surprising to me that LG ultimately made the decision to "go with" a LINUX-based OS for their Android offering.
Some of you may or may not remember the MISKINIX project that I embarked on, which was a complete proof-of-concept 3D Windowing system and multitasking environment that I developed for use on Palm and compatible handhelds from 2002-2004, which I suspended due to becoming involved with some more commercial and career-based endeavors. In any case, I recently posted a bit of information and screenshots of the MISKINIX system on FaceBook, as some folks were interested, and I no longer maintain the miskinix.com website, and the PalmSide web site in Austria that originally hosted my MISKINIX forum, and "web site", was shutdown many years ago.
Anyway, I visited this forum once again today, not knowing if it would still be here, and what I would find. I see that there are no longer model-specific forums for the Zaurus platform(s), but there is still a PDAXROM forum which was comforting to find.
I noticed that many of the sites such as "the grinder" which hosted the variant of PDAXROM known as PDAXQTROM was no longer available, and at this time, I do not know if I will every be able to find some of the software that I am searching for, or be able to contact some of the folks that I used to "chat with", if you will, in and outside of the forum.
I have recently acquired a Zaurus C-750, which seems to be functioning properly, and I plan to attempt to setup a PDAXROM, or some other X-based environment, for both use and development, as I find the pocket-sized and powerful computer system paradigm very useful, and I do not care much for "smart phones", and the "luggage" (such as surveillance capabilities) that they offer.
Anyway, I wanted to touch base with the community once again, and I hope that some folks will chime in. I spent about an hour this morning searching for the "stock C-750" NAND backup file, but I became a bit disappointed when I saw that the one that was previously available had been corrupted and is no longer available.
Best Wishes, Happy Sunday, and I realize that this was quite a "long" post.
John
