[lug] pda

[Nate Duehr]

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, 

I have a Handspring with both serial and USB cradles and found that it
worked fine under Linux with the jpilot/serial cradle combo.

I am severly burnt out on it though -- I keep seeing colorized PDA's and
PDA's that can do all sorts of "real computer" things that Palm was just
never designed to do.

I've been considering the iPaq for a while now, but the $500 price tag
keeps me balking.  (I can get a complete Celeron machine, case, keyboard,
mouse, and all for that!)

But here's the link that will eventually swing me over to the store to
get one... someday...

http://primates.helixcode.com/~vladimir/ipaq/debian-ipaq-howto.html

-- 
Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com>

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