Re: Inexpensive handheld that can run Linux (well)?

From: Ray Ingles (sorceror_at_dmc22317.local)
Date: 01/03/05 

Date: 3 Jan 2005 12:42:14 -0500

In article <33tcv9F40stmrU1@individual.net>, Christopher Browne wrote:
> I would think you're better off with a PalmOS "appliance" that can
> talk well with Linux (using pilot-link et al) than to fight with
> something that probably will be less suitable and less interoperable.
 
 That's mostly what I think, too. But I'm not afraid to program and
I like the 'geek factor'.

> - My other "killer PalmOS app" is GNU Keyring, a strongly encrypting
> password manager for my dozens of passwords at work and elsewhere.

 I'm glad I was using it when my Palm was stolen. :->

> I have been watching the Linux-based PDAs for quite some time; they
> seem more like "time sinks" than the PalmOS systems...

 I rather expect so myself. But if I could find the right hardware
combo, I *might* switch. 

-- 
 Sincerely,
 Ray Ingles                              (313) 227-2317
     Microsoft Windows: Warn your friends about it.

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