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XFree86 Technical Conference — Abstract
Salamander:
The Quest to Build a Useful Handheld Computing
Environment
Alexander Guy, Andern Research Labs
Abstract
As of late, the availability of commercial, off the
shelf, handheld devices has grown dramatically. It
is now possible to walk into most consumer elec-tronic
stores, and purchase a handheld device capa-ble
of running a fully fledged operating system such
as Linux or NetBSD.
The only major differences found in these handheld
devices, as compared to their desktop counterparts,
are related to hardware. The computing and stor-age
resources available to users and applications are
under much different constraints. In addition, input
and output mechanisms are generally quite differ-ent.
Because of this, although the existing appli-cation
base is available (e.g. GNOME, KDE, and
other X applications), their use is in many cases in-feasable
(although much code and experience can
be gained).
Salamander is a project aimed at developing a use-ful
handheld computing environment. Based on
UNIX-like operating systems, with X as the win-dowing
environment, Salamander exists to provide
an open-source suite of Personal Information Man-agement
(PIM) tools and a support structure for
applications on current and next-generation hand-helds.
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