1.01 Zaurus Introduction

The Zaurus is a line of PDAs made by Sharp. The original models from the 1990's and early 2000's ran a proprietary OSes; Synergy OS for the earlier PI and ZR models and Zaurus OS for the later MI and MT models. After the MT series Sharp released the ground breaking SL series in 2001 that ran Linux out of the box.

The scope of this document is to only provide in depth coverage on the SL and SL-C Zaurus models due to the fact that they run Linux natively, and have a wide variety of alternate operating systems available for it.

There is a large amount of open source software available for the SL and SL-C models and more can be fairly easily created for it thanks to the easy availability of native and crosscompilers.