Re: [luau] Sharp Zaurus sl5000d

2002-07-17 Thread MonMotha
Dan George wrote: ... It does have a touchscreen and Linux support for the 568 but HP just doesnt want to support it. I meant to say that the touchscreen is unsupported in Linux. Remember that many of these PDA ports are done on a mostly volunteer basis by the reasearchers (the iPaq stuff i

Re: [luau] Sharp Zaurus sl5000d

2002-07-17 Thread Dan George
On Wednesday 17 July 2002 20:53, you wrote: > Dan George wrote: > > Id like to get my hands on the software for my Jornado 568 64meg > > also has ARM 206 added 128 compact flash but has Pocket PC. > > > > $275 with USB and adapter isnt a bad price. Some PDAs like the Sony > > Clie have a flimsy

Re: [luau] Sharp Zaurus sl5000d

2002-07-17 Thread MonMotha
Dan George wrote: Id like to get my hands on the software for my Jornado 568 64meg also has ARM 206 added 128 compact flash but has Pocket PC. $275 with USB and adapter isnt a bad price. Some PDAs like the Sony Clie have a flimsy USB cradle and adapter. Jornado is the beefiest PDA next to t

Re: [luau] Sharp Zaurus sl5000d

2002-07-17 Thread Dan George
Id like to get my hands on the software for my Jornado 568 64meg also has ARM 206 added 128 compact flash but has Pocket PC. $275 with USB and adapter isnt a bad price. Some PDAs like the Sony Clie have a flimsy USB cradle and adapter. Jornado is the beefiest PDA next to the Compaq 64meg IPAQ.

Re: [luau] Sharp Zaurus sl5000d

2002-07-16 Thread whenever
Thanks for all the info, this's might be another toy for me, I had been through a WinCE, a palm perfessional, a palm III with 8Mb upgrade. Got tire of them too fast and gave them away. Sadly I can't use any two way communication device at work, I will try play with it since I have

Re: [luau] Sharp Zaurus sl5000d

2002-07-16 Thread MonMotha
Jeff Mings wrote: This could be a very cool thing, depending on what you need and want in a PDA. I have been coveting the new Zaurus with the pop-down keyboard, beautiful big screen, and real, built-in Linux. The potential to easily move stuff between my Linux boxen and PDA is very appealing

Re: [luau] Sharp Zaurus sl5000d

2002-07-16 Thread MonMotha
whenever wrote: I got my hand on a zaurus from a friend today, it's running Linux with QT, pretty good PDA, too bad the sync software that came with the unit is windows based, I got to download the linux hot sync program, but too lazy to recompile the kernel for usb-ppp support. There

Re: [luau] Sharp Zaurus sl5000d

2002-07-16 Thread Jeff Mings
This could be a very cool thing, depending on what you need and want in a PDA. I have been coveting the new Zaurus with the pop-down keyboard, beautiful big screen, and real, built-in Linux. The potential to easily move stuff between my Linux boxen and PDA is very appealing, and not really po

[luau] Sharp Zaurus sl5000d

2002-07-16 Thread whenever
I got my hand on a zaurus from a friend today, it's running Linux with QT, pretty good PDA, too bad the sync software that came with the unit is windows based, I got to download the linux hot sync program, but too lazy to recompile the kernel for usb-ppp support. There are some software