*** Reply to message from Travis Owens <towens@linuxmds.com> on 08 Apr 2003 13:30:33 -0500***
Just got my Sharp Zaurus PDA and was wondering if any of us SuSE users here have used it before?
oooh yeah .. It's a really great little pda , that *might* make you a little bit nuts until you get a few things installed. for instance a console .. <G> Tho it does deoend on what you wish to do w/ it. I use mine as a substitute for a bloody heavy old thinkpad ... 8 oz. vs 8 lbs makes that a no brainer. I have both a wireless and an ethernet card for hooking into networks where I have permission. I also have a modem for the worst case senarios. Hotel , w/o fast access to the net etc. I can Recomend The Kompany.com for products that are better than what is installed on it when you get it, although they are commercial and want to be paid .. it's not much and you can pick and choose what apps you want etc. I also recommend you get the largest CF cards you can get your hands on .. Much of the stuff The Kompany has can be installed onto a CF card leaving room for things that Must be installed into the ROM . I wouldn't count on getting too much bother about the miniature flash card, sandisk and others, are still rather pricey, and more importantly they are intolerably slow esp. vs anything installed into rom or on the cf cards!! No one seems to have figures out why that is , just that it is so. I have used qtopia for linux for synching. tho the latest one seems to be a bit borkened.. er, the latest one of a month or so ago. I have made a Cf card that contains games ( tune you Z into a gameboy advanced w/ a better screen ,g.) AND also tend to fill many Cf cards w/ music for long plain trips. The Kompanies sound player plays oggs as well as mp3s so you can knock yourself out that way.. And, when you return to a work time , you plonk a cf card into it w/ only business or similar apps on it. Oh yeah, there are those who have compressed a whole movie dvd onto a half gig cf card.! I know that a lot of video stuff plays on it, but that isn't something I've spent a lot of time w/ .. zaurii.net And a bunch of others will help you get to be very fond of this little gem. Well, once you get past what seems to be a long learning curve. HOWever, if you are comfortable w/ Linux and the shell you will soon be on your way to pda heaven <VBG> -- j Afterthought : Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes