I just bought a Zaurus SL-5600 PDA for use in my business. My primary use will be connecting to client's LANs and making adjustments to routers and gateways. The 5600 has 96 megs of RAM and includes both Compact Flash and Secure Digital media slots. One of the reasons I bought at this time was that ThinkGeek was offering a free SanDisk 802.11b CF card with the purchase of the 5600. The SanDisk card works right out of the box. I was easily able to configure the WEP encoding (128 bit) for my wireless acess point and get on the air with it. The 5600 comes with Opera 6 and the included software provides a KDE terminal which can be downloaded from the software CD. I located Perl and Python kits as well as VNC. The VNC server/client are particularly nice because you can run the VNC server on the 5600 and then control the system from your PC. With VNC running you have a full keyboard available. Even so the included mini-keyboard (Sharp calls it the "pick keyboard") is surprisingly good. Because the system has both compact flash and secure digital slots, you can plug in the wireless card and still use the SD (secure digital) media to keep your programs. The flash memory slots are meant to be used the way conventional disks are on a standard system. This is quite a bit different from Pocket PC and Palm devices which usually require some kind of transfer program and which are plain storage devices.
I'm still exploring but so far I'm very impressed with the system. I believe it's Debian based and it came with a fairly recent kernel (2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix). -Alex _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
