Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1683 mails)

[mperry@xxxxxxxxx (Michael Perry)]

Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 08:09:07 -0800
From: Michael Perry <mperry@xxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <20001110080907.A32144@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [SLE] SuSE on Pocket PC?



Quoting T. Koray Peksayar on Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 05:40:27PM +0200:
> Well guys and gals,
> 
> I don't think any distro will port any package nor driver to any PDA. These
> PDA's are brain dead (yet useful) dev's but they are completely different in
> architecture.
> 
> So the real answer comes : There's a plan for Samsung to release a PDA
> running Linux and only Linux, powerful and versatile then others. It's
> called YOPY and will be available in 2001 I think.
> It has a built-in camera, a high-color TFT display, high quality earphones,
> one touch function key, web browser, e-mail client, chat client, voice
> recorder, MP3 encoder,  MP3 player and many other specialities.
> 
> I remember an article on estimation for the performance and
> high-availability: Summary is "Time to die for CE and Pilot OS" :)
> 
> Koray
> 
> 
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There are others too releasing linux-based PDAs. I think that a few of them
will come out at the same time as the yopy and offer different featuresets. 
One will be from a relatively well known pda/hpc maker out there now :)


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Michael Perry           
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