On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 06:53 -0500, JP Rosevear wrote:
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 09:53 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:Hi, I have an iPaq I would like to use as an Evolution satellite (i.e. update my contacts, calendar, tasks, be notified for my appointments, etc.) What's the best supported OS I should put on it ? PocketPC, GPE or OPIE ?Only thing i can suggest is checking out multisync http://multisync.sourceforge.net/news.php
I'm partial to familiar on iPaq's, but note that when you buy a PocketPC platform to run linux on, you're boosting microsoft's installed base numbers, which helps enable microsoft persuade software vendors to implement for their platform - only. Microsoft is taking a loss on every PocketPC box sold for a reason. They aren't doing it because they want to loose money. They're doing it because their other businesses allow them to take a loss on PDA's long enough to gain a stranglehold on the market. =Then=, they'll change pricing so as to start making a profit on each box sold. I very much wanted a linux PDA last time I went PDA shopping, but wound up going with a PalmOne Tungsten C, for exactly this reason. As an added benefit, Palm boxes are most likely going to be running linux in the future, which a proprietary PalmOS layer overtop - kind of analogous to what MacOS X does with *BSD.
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