Are there *any* good high-end Linux-friendly PDAs out there?

[ward at pong.be (Ward Vandewege)]

On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 02:29:01AM -0500, David Kramer wrote:
> Damn you, I just spent about three hours researching that puppy!  It's 
> now 2:20 and I have to be up at 6:30.

:) Sorry about that.

> DejaPIM does not sync with Linux, only Windows.  GPE is *very* 
> primitive.  Neither comes with the unit, so they are not supported. 

After your e-mail I saw all the windows nonsense about DejaPIM so skipped
that, and then installed GPE. Indeed, it looks quite basic. But I haven't
looked much further than installing it.

> This is very much not a PDA.  It's very cool, and it has great 
> potential. 

I guess that's a matter of definition :) For me, this thing is more like a
mini version of a linux box, with all the benefits (plenty of 3rd party
software - don't care about Nokia software support, really), open, standard,
etc etc.

> Ward, thanks for all the great info.  Do you go to the BLU meetings 
> (Sorry, I'm dreadful at associating faces and names)? 

I've been to a couple of meetings lately, but I don't think we've met.

> Would you be 
> willing to bring it to a meeting to show me/show it off to the class for 
> Show And Tell?

I'll bring it to the next meeting - hopefully I can make it to the Feb 15
one.

Ward.

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