I will be buying a new PDA in a few weeks. My Handspring Visor Edge still
works fine and is the 4th in a line of Palm based products back to the
original Palm Pilot 1000 (loved that thing). Palm products have served me
well. It's just that I want more out of a PDA now.
I'd like to get one with Linux on it. My options for such a product seem
somewhat restricted:
- - Sharp Zaurus SL-5x00 and SL-6000 models look nice and I have drooled over
them for a while now. However:
- -- Sharp has discontinued the SL-6000 and sales of the 5x00 models as well.
- -- I have heard some bad stories about Sharp support.
- - iPAQ is a possibility and I have put Linux on some older models before.
- -- I'd rather buy one with Linux on it to start instead of paying for a
different OS.
I know of no others that are readily available and either have Linux
pre-installed or can have it installed on them. Of course, the Palm
envronment has worked well for me for the most part. I could just get a new
Palm based unit. What I am exploring here are the possibilities and
recommendations for a Linux PDA.
What do you all recommend as a PDA with Linux?
Alan
PS. Some refernece sites:
- -
http://handhelds.org - all things about Linux on the iPAQ
- -
http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT8728350077.html - list of PDAs that
use or can use Linux. There are a lot of them there but if you eliminate the
industrial ones, there are not very many that are still pruchasable products.
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