RE: (clug-talk) (news) Qtopia chosen over Palm and Pocket PC - or , Everything you wanted to know about Linux and PDAs

[Curtis Sloan]

Title: RE: (clug-talk) (news) Qtopia chosen over Palm and Pocket PC - or , Everything you wanted to know about Linux and PDAs

Thank you for the enlightening links!  OpenZaurus looks like a really good option for Zaurus users.  The fact that it is also Debian-/ipkg-compatible is nice to see.  If I don't miss my guess, it might be a nice bridge between the Zaurus default ROM (if not flexible enough for a user) and a Familiar/Intimate-style distribution (which, of course, are for the iPAQ -- but would they work on the Zaurus, being that it is StrongARM as well?  I don't know).

 

Thank you OSS, for bringing flexibility and options to handheld computing.  :-)

 

Curtis.

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Barnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 7:47 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: (clug-talk) (news) Qtopia chosen over Palm and Pocket PC - or , Everything you wanted to know about Linux and PDAs

Regarding tweaking the Zaurus:

There's the ability to alter the ROMs, besides OpenZaurus:
http://openzaurus.sourceforge.net/oz_website/content/overview

Not sure about where you're driving for the ability to tweak/compile software on the Zaurus - there's packages for Perl, HTML, MySQL, Apache off the top of my head.  The FAQ lists a few places for software:

http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/zaurus-faq/sections/software.php3