Message-ID: <200011101314120644.4E91E2DF@exchange1>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 13:14:12 -0500
From: "Tim Duggan"
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.
I agree that the lack of a memory management unit makes the motorola dragonball (palm OS) and arm7tdmi (?) based devices brain dead. Many of the others are very complete as far as the CPU goes. The Agenda VR3, Vandem Clio, Vtech Helio and Casio E-105 all have a mips processor very similiar to the one found in SGI workstations. The Compaq iPaq is very close to the YOPY, both have StrongArm 1110 processors and I'd be willing to bet most software would function on both. I do have to admit that after looking at all of them the YOPY is definitely the most integrated and complete unit that I have seen. Very impressive.
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.
The real test is if it's possible to play a networked deathmatch in doom or heretic (it looks possible). http://www.yopydeveloper.org/index.html It would certainly liven up board meetings :-) Later, Tim