[plug] Open Source PALM/PDA

[Tim White]

He wants a basic PDA that can play some games, manage his time and contacts 
and probably write up some short documents.
He wants low cost so figured OpenSource may be good.
Tim
At 17:56 26/02/2004 +0800, you wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 17:29, Tim White wrote:
> > A friend of mine is looking for an Open Source Palm/PDA.
>
>
>Well palm is a brand name but you can install ArmLinux or (I believe
>NetBSD)on a Palm Pilot but I didn't install it on mine.
>
>What prince range is your friend looking at?
>
>You can get an iPaq and install the familiar distribution or even use a
>Sharp Zaurus which was designed to run Linux anyway.
>
>What does you friend plan to do with his PDA?
>
>There is no perl port for PalmOS (at least according to CPAN) but there
>is quite a bit of Palm software on sf.net. There is even a port of gcc.
>
>regards,
>
>Chris Caston
>--
>Linux is ready for the desktop like a Boeing F-22 is ready for the
>run-way.
>
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