Talk:Psion

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It is not consistent to have a 3mx article and a 3 article but no 3a and 3c articles. We should fold the 3mx under the 3. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.111.48.116 (talk • contribs)

[edit] Change to disambiguation page?

I have a slight feeling this page should become a disambiguation page, with the current content here moved to (say) Psion PLC. Any views on this? Cheers --Pak21 08:41, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Alright, it's taken care of. Hope I didn't do anything against the rules.JohnLanglie 11:27, 05 June 2006

Unfortunately, yes ;) There are procedures for everything here! see WP:MOVE. No worries though, I'll find someone to fix it :) -Quiddity 01:49, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Section on Psion's Linux involvement rife with errors...

The project to port Linux to the Series 5 was originally known as the linux-7110 project, and was started by the open source community (specifically as a Red Hat employee's personal project), *not* Psion. Here's the announcement for the project:

http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=98/03/17/091500

Psion had minimal direct involvement with the project (eventually providing a few pages of low-level hardware information); in many respects, Psion was probably more pushed into it by Geofox freely providing their hardware information and a loaner Geofox One for the project's use.

The Linux-7110 project's website and mailing list moved from Red Hat to calcaria.net some months later as the Red Hat employee that started the project lacked the time to keep things going.

Doing a bit of searching for terms like "linux-7110" and "redhat" should point you at documents showing the project as being hosted there originally. I've not been able to find the archive for Red Hat's linux-7110 list, though if you search for linux-7110@redhat.com you'll see many hits indicating it did exist...

Well, I wouldn't say "rife" with errors...the one issue here is the precise origins of the project. The references suggest Psion's involvement, at least at the get-go, and certainly later on with the netBook Pro. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Bdushaw/OpenPsion for the archived article on the subject that got deleted (not notable...don't get me started...there was a better, later version of the article, but I didn't archive it in time). I could be wrong, but to me the references suggested Psion's involvement and support at least at the start, though they seemed to fairly quickly have wandered away, true. I should transfer some of the references over. (I think one of the reasons the article got deleted was that there was only me editing the thing...) Bdushaw 16:20, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

To be precise, in reference 2: The Calcaria Linux 7k project or Linux CL-PS7110, as RedHat initially called it, is currently in development stage. The project has the support of Psion and according to Psion's technology strategist Andrew Till, "there's a very good chance the mobile version of Linux will get a Bluetooth implementation." (When I started writing this article, this quote surprised me.) Bdushaw 16:26, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

I think I now see what your concerns were - I've edited the section again to be perhaps more accurate...but I've been desperate for other editors...hint, hint... :) Bdushaw 16:40, 1 August 2007 (UTC)