On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 11:44:49PM +1000, Del wrote: > A question from a friend -- since I don't really use or know much about > PDAs but have been thinking about getting one, and thought I'd throw it > to the list: > > Does anyone have any advice they want to offer? I run Windows XP on > my desktop, but in fact the Windows CE OS of my PDA was the main thing > stopping me from giving Linux a whirl - the iPAQ model I have can > only sync with a Windows machine. What sort of PDA do I have to get > to be able to sync with Mozilla and OpenOffice and other organic free > range software on a Linux machine?
- If you want to be able to run a version of Linux on your PDA, then you need to be fairly careful with your research. Have a poke around http://handhelds.org/ . Check out the supported models, and what the different distributions have to offer. - My iPaq doesn't run Linux, but it happily syncs with evolution on my Linux machine. That only covers contacts, tasks and todos, but that and a full backup of my data is all I really want anyway. Check http://synce.sourceforge.net/ for the bits that interface with the iPaq, and http://multisync.sourceforge.net/ for the syncing software. Cheers, -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
