My recommendations is if your into it do play with it. There is now alot of software availble in Linux for the Palm and Ryseron (part of UofT) is currently working on a port to Linux on the Palm. Its rough but it works but requires a memory upgrade. Start with Linux.org>projects>microcontroller to get you going, then do an altvista search "Linux+Palmpilot" you will find a small gold mine.
Using Linux on the Pilot is a waste for folks who want a PDA. If you have a *need* for an ultra-tiny *Linux* box for some reason (and if you had that reason you'd know it), then it's interesting. Otherwise, PalmOS is open enough that you can develop for it and it is VERY good as a PDA OS.
Yes the palm can be sinked to Linux. Kde even has a small program (not tested yet) Kpilot, there is a samll but fucntional developers kit, and an emulator xcopilot (bugger to set up though).
See <A HREF="http://developer.redhat.com"><A HREF="http://developer.redhat.com</A">http://developer.redhat.com. I have RPMs for RH of xcopilot, pilot-link, and the prc-tools (which is an entire development environment for the Pilot...gcc, binutils, gdb, libc, libm, etc). You should be able to grab the SRPMs and just do a --rebuild on them under SuSE. --Donnie -- Donnie Barnes <A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/~djb"><A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/~djb</A">http://www.redhat.com/~djb djb@redhat.com "Bah." Challenge Diversity. Ignore People. Live Life. Use Linux. 879. My Dad used to say I have deceptive quickness. I'm slower than I look. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e