Specific PDA's: vendors and products
- Agenda
- FAQ's
-
O'Reilly: The Agenda VR3: Real Linux in a PDA (includes some
useful links on the last page)
- Run an atari 800
emulator on your agenda vr3
-
linuxhardware.org
- Agenda plans a VR3, VR3+ and VR5, all running linux as their primary
OS.
- Agenda has shipped the first batch of developer units. Another batch
is expected to ship in January, 2001.
- Here
is the official agenda website
- The default distribution runs X, and uses the
FLTK toolkit but also includes
some of the older, primitive X toolkits like Xt and Xaw. FLTK
purportedly allows easy writing of applications that work on both small
displays (like PDAs) and normal displays (like your desktop linux machine).
- Rumor has it that Agenda's CTO is one of the main guys behind the ports
of linux to microsoft PDA machines
- The expected price of the consumer VR3, $149, is very good when comparing
hardware features with other PDAs. The developer units are $179, and
loaded with flash memory.
-
twomobile's article on the VR3
-
PDAbuzz forum on the VR3
- The screen is 160x240 with 16 greylevels
- The agenda-user mailing list is archived
here. See also the agenda-dev, agenda-announce, agenda-bugs and
other mailing lists
- linux-vr: has info about cross
compiling for MIPS
-
developer.agendacomputing.com
- The machines use "vrwm" as their window manager (?)
- Battery life should be about a month on two AAA's. However there may
be some kinks to work out - particularly suspending the unit but leaving it
connected to the serial cable has a somewhat high power drain
-
Picture of the developer edition and IR keyboard
- Shane's ftp site, including a version
of elvis (vi) for the vr3
- For submitting bugs:
bugs.agendacomputing.com
- avoidant.org
-
Agenda doc on flashing the vr3d
- Some agenda info from
Lego Andy. Debian slant
- GMate Yopy
- I believe this one runs linux and nothing else.
- The GUI may or may not be released under an opensource license
- First version runs "W", not X windows. However, the next dev
version is expected to
run X and GTK+
.
- gicom.de (includes a nice list of
links to yopy info)
- Hard to find. Thu Sep 21 10:55:47 PDT 2000
- A Slashdot
thread about yopy, with some W and iPaq info thrown in
- Some specs from
pdabuzz
- Some folks are saying it'll cost US $99, while others are saying between
$400 and $600
-
O'Reilly questioning whether yopy will ever be released
- Ob pictures and useful questions
and answers about yopy
- GMate allegedly hasn't (hadn't) released its changes to the GPL'd W
windowing system
- 240 x 320 "True Color" (64K Colors)
- vtech's helio
- linuxorbit
article - apparently the original proprietary OS is being deemphasized
in favor of linux
- tools on sourcefourge
- This project uses "W" (or maybe "Microwindows", I'm not certain they've
made a decision yet).
- Costs about $150, actually shipping, but with the old OS. Linux port
isn't ready for end users. Thu Sep 21 10:56:07 PDT 2000
- Display is 160x160 16 greylevel LCD
- Royal is reportedly planning two linux versions of their DaVinci PDA's
- Compaq's iPAQ
- runs linux, but it also runs wince
- slashdot
article
- apparently linux has been ported to this machine in two different ways,
by two different groups - Compaq itself, and Century Software
- Runs X
-
handhelds.org page
- Costs about $500, hard to find. Thu Sep 21 10:55:10 PDT 2000
- PalmPilot
- PalmPilots, at least some of them, can run linux, but linux will
probably remain secondary to PalmOS on this platform, and unofficial
- This isn't
really about linux on a palmpilot, but it does relate
to linux and palmpilots
- If you're interested in linux on palm,
this might be the right place to start.
- And you might see my palmos/linux page
- Sharp Zaurus
- Acer Slimmate
Mitac CAT
HNT's Exelien
"Another" Korean Linux-based PDA
power play III
- palm IIIxe compatible hardware
- Linux DA OS
- $99 ($89 introductory, Sep 24, 2001) - pretty inexpensive
-
linuxdevices
Survey articles
Misc notes
- About "W": Apparently there are two windowing systems called "W".
One is the predecessor to "X", and is not used on PDA's. The other is
a new project, and is used on PDA's.