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>Chapter 6. Linux PDAs</H1
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>6.1. <A
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>AgendaComputing: Agenda VR3</A
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>6.2. <A
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>Samsung: YOPY</A
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>SHARP SL-5000/5500/C700-860/C3x00/6000 aka Zaurus</A
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>6.3.1. <A
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>The SHARP System</A
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>6.3.2. <A
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>The Community Systems</A
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>6.3.3. <A
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>Synchronization with your Linux PC</A
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>External Serial Keyboard</A
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>Cross-Compiling</A
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>Caveats</A
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>Conversion from Palm Pilot to Zaurus</A
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>&#13; The most known Linux PDAs in these days are the
<A
HREF="http://tuxmobil.org/pda_survey_agenda.html"
TARGET="_top"
>Agenda VR3</A
>
by AgendaComputing (out-of-production), the
<A
HREF="http://tuxmobil.org/pda_survey_compaq.html"
TARGET="_top"
>iPAQ</A
>
by HP/COMPAQ, the
<A
HREF="http://tuxmobil.org/pda_survey_sharp.html"
TARGET="_top"
>Zaurus series</A
>
by SHARP,
and the <A
HREF="http://tuxmobil.org/pda_survey_samsung.html"
TARGET="_top"
>Yopy</A
>
by Samsung (out-of-production). Except the iPAQ all of them are true Linux PDAs,
they are pre-equipped with Linux by their manufacturers.
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>&#13; There are different free distributions for Linux PDAs
available, e.g.:
<A
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>QT Embedded</A
> (pre-installed on the SHARP Zaurus),
<A
HREF="http://opie.handhelds.org/"
TARGET="_top"
>Opie</A
>,
<A
HREF="http://familiar.handhelds.org/"
TARGET="_top"
>Familiar</A
>.
The
<A
HREF="http://gpe.handhelds.org/"
TARGET="_top"
>Gnome Palmtop Environment - GPE</A
>
aims to provide a Free Software GUI environment
for palmtop/handheld computers running the GNU/Linux
operating system. GPE uses the X Window System, and the GTK+
widget toolkit.
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>&#13; Most of the software for the newer PDAs can be obtained as pre-compiled
IPK packages. You may search the
<A
HREF="http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/"
TARGET="_top"
>Zaurus Software Index - ZSI</A
>
or
<A
HREF="http://ipkgfind.handhelds.org/"
TARGET="_top"
>ipkgfind</A
> for the
package you need.
To install these packages you may choose different methods. One
method is to install directly via a HTTP connection called
<EM
>feed</EM
>. For an
example see the
<A
HREF="http://tuxmobil.org/feed.html"
TARGET="_top"
>TuxMobil IPK feed</A
>.
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>&#13; Besides these well-known Linux PDAs I will also try to point
to ports for other PDAs and to tools to achieve connectivity to
non-Linux PDAs, cell phones and desktop computers.
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