The software used to date on Itsy has been based on Linux 2.0.30. Compaq Research group's Linux work on the iPAQ H3600 is updating the software base for Itsy to current versions of Linux. The Compaq Personal Server is a research prototype developed in Compaq's Cambridge Research Laboratory in 1999, and was made available to certain research groups external to Compaq. The Shark is a SA-110 based network appliance built by Digital. While never a product high volume product, a significant number were built and are in the open source community, generally running NetBSD, but they can now run Linux as well.
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