Hi Dr Sharukh Thanks for sharing your experiences. Definitly the GNU/ Linux ports for handheld devices are somewhat lacking but hey I do sincerely hope it would be better in my case
Reasons: The WinCE pocketPC I have has a version of MSN Messenger that will not let me sign into mesenger serverice, reason MS says during signup "It is an old and incompatible version", though I am not an avid messenger users, but why carry something which is of no use/ little use. The so called pocket word seems like a primitive text editor, which will choke on even some so called valid pocket word docs (automatically converted using active sync utility from ms word docs). Ok I admit those docs were actually exported by OpenOffice from ODT format :-D It wont communicate with synce (the linux sync utility for pocket PC), that means I will have to boot into windblows everytime I need to put something on the pocket PC (that has increased the frequency of my windows sessions from once a month to around twice a week, and during each such session I am always afraid for the well being of my laptop). Ok I agree the calender is impressive, but hey except for the on screen keyboard the same thing is offered by my n-gage too. I googled around and was unable to come across any development efforts on audiovox thera, but since the hadrware is fairly compatible with similar systems, i guess I will try this and if the GNU is in my favour I may get the penguines in my pocket pc and not a brick to throw at windows. Result of some of my search/ reserach I can run all apps for flashing (though none was able to flash audiovox thera) including the boot loaders on the pocket PCs, lets see if I can do something more. Wish me luck any help/ pointers would be appriciated. Sincerely Ajay Pal Singh Atwal Dept of CSE & IT BBSBEC, Fatehgarh Sahib Punjab, INDIA -------------------------------- http://www.bbsbec.ac.in -------------------------------- ajaypal[at]bbsbec.org, ----- Original Message ----- From: Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: ਸà©à¨®à¨µà¨¾à¨° 27 ਮਾਰਠ2006 10:15:06 ਸ਼ਾ. IST Subject: Re: [LIH]Installing Linux on a Pocket PC On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Ajay Pal Singh Atwal wrote: > > Hi Gurus > > A few days back I bought a Pocket PC (Toshiba 2032SP), since I was unable to > acquire a simputer (Is it dead) <snip> < begin rant > Okay, this may not be exactly what you want but I guess a warning is in order. I have a Sharp Zaurus SL 5500. It is an older model. The Zaurii are natively built for linux. I too wanted to have a better version on the zaurus, so I flashed it with the latest OpenZaurus 3.5.4. Believe me, it was a major step backward. I have had a tough time trying to get it working like it used to work with the old Sharp rom. With 3.5.3, I could atleast set up USB networking with my linux box. That got trashed with 3.5.4rc. Lo and behold, when I flashed with 3.5.4, I lost the use of the SD card. I am seriously contemplating going back to the old Sharp rom or one of the older OZ roms. And before someone says it, yes, I have googled till I have tens of links that I check frequently. The openzaurus-users list on sourcforge simply refuses to let me in. I wrote to the list owner a fortnight ago asking him to add me to the list but no go. < end of rant > :) so if you wanna mess w/ hardware that was not really made for linux... all I can say is -- it's your brick :) Best of luck. Sharukh. -- Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. Homoeopath, Linuxer. Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
