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>Linux PDAs</TITLE
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TITLE="Handheld Devices - Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs)"
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TITLE="Itsy"
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>Chapter 6. Linux PDAs</H1
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><DT
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>Table of Contents</B
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><DT
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>6.1. <A
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HREF="mobile-guide-p3c2s1-agenda-vr3.html"
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>AgendaComputing: Agenda VR3</A
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></DT
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><DT
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>6.2. <A
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HREF="mobile-guide-p3c2s8-yopy.html"
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>Samsung: YOPY</A
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>6.3. <A
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HREF="mobile-guide-p3c2s8-zaurus.html"
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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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HREF="mobile-guide-p3c2s8-zaurus.html#AEN1210"
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>The SHARP System</A
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>6.3.2. <A
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HREF="mobile-guide-p3c2s8-zaurus.html#AEN1220"
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>The Community Systems</A
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>6.3.3. <A
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HREF="mobile-guide-p3c2s8-zaurus.html#AEN1252"
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>Synchronization with your Linux PC</A
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>6.3.4. <A
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HREF="mobile-guide-p3c2s8-zaurus.html#AEN1257"
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>External Serial Keyboard</A
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>6.3.5. <A
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HREF="mobile-guide-p3c2s8-zaurus.html#AEN1264"
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>Cross-Compiling</A
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>6.3.6. <A
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HREF="mobile-guide-p3c2s8-zaurus.html#AEN1290"
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>Caveats</A
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><DT
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>6.3.7. <A
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HREF="mobile-guide-p3c2s8-zaurus.html#AEN1296"
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>Resources</A
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><DT
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>6.3.8. <A
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HREF="mobile-guide-p3c2s8-zaurus.html#AEN1372"
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>Conversion from Palm Pilot to Zaurus</A
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><P
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> The most known Linux PDAs in these days are the
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<A
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HREF="http://tuxmobil.org/pda_survey_agenda.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Agenda VR3</A
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>
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by AgendaComputing (out-of-production), the
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<A
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HREF="http://tuxmobil.org/pda_survey_compaq.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>iPAQ</A
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>
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by HP/COMPAQ, the
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<A
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HREF="http://tuxmobil.org/pda_survey_sharp.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Zaurus series</A
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>
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by SHARP,
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and the <A
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HREF="http://tuxmobil.org/pda_survey_samsung.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Yopy</A
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>
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by Samsung (out-of-production). Except the iPAQ all of them are true Linux PDAs,
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they are pre-equipped with Linux by their manufacturers.
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</P
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><P
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> There are different free distributions for Linux PDAs
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available, e.g.:
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<A
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HREF="http://www.trolltech.com/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>QT Embedded</A
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> (pre-installed on the SHARP Zaurus),
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<A
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HREF="http://opie.handhelds.org/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Opie</A
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>,
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<A
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HREF="http://familiar.handhelds.org/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Familiar</A
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>.
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The
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<A
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HREF="http://gpe.handhelds.org/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Gnome Palmtop Environment - GPE</A
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aims to provide a Free Software GUI environment
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for palmtop/handheld computers running the GNU/Linux
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operating system. GPE uses the X Window System, and the GTK+
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widget toolkit.
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</P
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><P
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> Most of the software for the newer PDAs can be obtained as pre-compiled
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IPK packages. You may search the
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<A
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HREF="http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Zaurus Software Index - ZSI</A
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or
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<A
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HREF="http://ipkgfind.handhelds.org/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>ipkgfind</A
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> for the
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package you need.
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To install these packages you may choose different methods. One
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method is to install directly via a HTTP connection called
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<EM
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>feed</EM
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>. For an
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example see the
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<A
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HREF="http://tuxmobil.org/feed.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>TuxMobil IPK feed</A
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>.
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</P
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><P
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> Besides these well-known Linux PDAs I will also try to point
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to ports for other PDAs and to tools to achieve connectivity to
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non-Linux PDAs, cell phones and desktop computers.
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