Editing Psion (company) (section)

== Integration with Linux {{anchor|Psion and the term Netbook}} ==
Psion had a lengthy, but distant, interest in [[Linux]] as an [[operating system]] on its electronic devices. In 1998, it supported the Linux7K project that had been initiated by Ed Bailey at [[Red Hat]], which was to port Linux to its Series 5 personal computer.<ref>
{{cite news
| first= Marc Ambasna
| last= Jones
| title= Opinion: Mobile Linux for Bluetooth – spanner for Microsoft?
| date=May 11, 1999
| publisher= ZDNet
| location = UK
| url = http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,2071868,00.htm
| work = News
| access-date = 2007-06-17}}
</ref><ref>
{{cite news
| first= Marc Ambasna
| last= Jones
| title= Mobile Linux for Psion pressures Win CE
| date=April 23, 1999
| publisher= ZDNet
| location = UK
| url = http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,2071685,00.htm
| work =News
| access-date = 2007-06-17}}
</ref><ref>
{{cite news
 |first=Werner
 |last=Almesberger
 |title=Linux in the pocket - The Linux-7k project
 |year=1999
 |publisher=Linux Symposium
 |location=Ottawa, ON, CA
 |url=http://www.linuxsymposium.org/1999/pocket.php
 |access-date=2007-06-17
 |url-status=dead
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704041518/http://www.linuxsymposium.org/1999/pocket.php
 |archive-date=2007-07-04
}}
</ref> The project was named after the Cirrus Logic PS-7110 chip of the Series 5. Although this project was one of the earliest attempts to port Linux to a handheld computer,<ref>{{cite news |last=Maddox |first=Paul |date=May 4, 2000 |title=Linux for handhelds: fact or fiction? |work=LinuxToday |publisher=eWeek |url=http://www.wirelessdevnet.com/channels/pda/features/linuxforhandhelds.html |access-date=2007-06-17}}</ref> it did not come to fruition for Psion. The project soon transitioned to an informal [[open-source software]] project at Calcaria.net that kept the name Linux7K. After the project transitioned again to sourceforge.net, the project's name was changed to a more general name ''PsiLinux'', and later to ''OpenPsion''. The project has developed Linux [[Kernel (operating system)|kernels]] and [[file system]]s for the [[Psion Revo|Revo]], [[Psion Series 5|Series 5 and 5MX]], and [[Psion Series 7|Series 7 and netBook]].

In 2003–4, Psion Teklogix and its founder David Potter expressed interest in Linux as the operating system for its devices as it divested from Symbian.<ref>
{{cite news
| last= Kewney
| first= Guy
| date= February 9, 2004
| title= Psion looks past Windows to Linux as Nokia buys Symbian
| publisher= newswireless.net
| url = http://www.newswireless.net/index.cfm/article/423
| work = News Wireless
| access-date = 2007-06-17}}
</ref><ref>
{{cite news
| first= Chris
| last= Partridge
| title= Psion prepares the way for the one true OS
| date= July 8, 2003
| publisher= VU Net
| url = http://www.vnunet.com/computing/comment/2071752/psion-prepares-way-true
| work = Computing
| access-date = 2007-06-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930194340/http://www.vnunet.com/computing/comment/2071752/psion-prepares-way-true |archive-date=2007-09-30}}
</ref><ref>
{{cite news
| last= Kewney
| first= Guy
| date= February 2004
| title= What Will Become the Next Scion of Psion?
| publisher= Ziff Davis Media
| url = http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_zdewk/is_200402/ai_ziff118872
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040920005530/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_zdewk/is_200402/ai_ziff118872
| url-status = dead
| archive-date = 2004-09-20
| work = eWeek
| access-date = 2007-06-17
}}
</ref> However, the only result of that interest was Linux as the operating system on a limited number of custom NetBook Pros designed for a hospital setting.<ref>
{{cite news
| last= Glover
| first= Tony
| date= May 23, 2004
| title= NHS deal with Psion heralds move away from Windows
| publisher= The Business Online
| url = http://www.thebusinessonline.com/Search/EditStory.asp?ID=6995
| access-date = 2007-06-17
 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040606043910/http://www.thebusinessonline.com/Search/EditStory.asp?ID=6995 |archive-date = 2004-06-06}}
</ref>

The [[Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset]] project has produced a small subset of Linux that runs on [[Psion Series 3]] PDAs.<ref>
{{Cite web|title=ELKS: Embeddable Linux Kernel System|url=http://elks.sourceforge.net/introduction.html|access-date=2020-11-05|website=elks.sourceforge.net}}
</ref>