On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 14:49, David A. Cafaro wrote: > I don't have experience with the 5600, but I do own a Sharp Zaurus 5500 > (the earlier model). I've used it since April of 2002, and still love > it. I have a CF WiFi card and a 128MB SD card in it. I've got ssh > client and server running on it, as well as VNC client and server. > Opera 6 runs very well.
> What exactly do you want to use it for? I want it as a standard PDA (address book, etc) and I want to be able to use ssh and the VNC client over wireless, which I guess is good to go! A portable media (MP3,OGG) player would also be a nice feature, from the specsheet I see it can already to MP3. Would be nice to be able to run irssi as well, although if ssh works then I can ssh to home and "screen" in anyway... > I will give you one warning > though, the stock Sharp ROM will not sync with any Desktop Linux apps > yet, and no definite time-line for when they will. You can install > other ROMs (non Sharp supported but still very good) that will sync with > Desktop Linux apps such as QtopiaDesktop for Linux or Evolution (maybe > more). Does that mean the the installed OS will not sync, requiring an alternate OS (distro) install? TIA! --mike
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