[lug] pda

Ken Kinder ken at kenkinder.com
Thu Mar 1 17:36:15 MST 2001


If you plan to use it with Linux, get a Palm-compatible one. The Handspring
people have come out with a nifty color one, the Prism. Compares well to
wince, without the evil empire.

Of course, Plam is proprietary too, but not as bad.

On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 05:27:52PM -0700, Holshouser, David wrote:
> 
> I'm starting to think about buying myself a PDA of somekind.
> After two minutes of thought, I start figuring that a Palm may 
> not satisfy (devil's advocate/power monger inside).
> Immediately a pocketPC comes to mind (wince), 
> quickly followed by keyboard (or lack thereof) and so 
> I move to the sub-sub-notebook (for less than $1K) arena.
> 
> This brings me to my topic.
> 
> What other VERY small computing options are out there?
> Which ones are known to be good with Linux?
> Does anyone have any experience with said devices? 
> 
> --
> David Holshouser
> Engineer I
> Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
> (303)939-5085  dholshou at ball.com  
> 
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