[ILUG] PDAs...

[Padraig Brady]

Both compaq's distro and Lisa use JFFS, which is
way more fleixible than cramfs, where any changes
would require the whole filesystem being reflashed.
This is only in the last couple of weeks since JFFS V2
has just been released.

Lisa looks much better than WinCE in my opinion. Actually
John and I were looking at this oriental guy playing with it, and
he had a canary when the language setting was changed
to display Kanji. He said he paid $100 extra for WinCE
Kanji edition or whatever.

As for battery life, it used to be bad because power management
wasn't supported correctly on the iPaq, but it is now.

I'm still going to hold out for the 64MB versions that
don't have serialised keys (The iPaq @ present doesn't
recognise simultaneous keypresses, which is crap for
games etc.).

Padraig.

Philip Trickett wrote:

> Dare I say it, but how does it compare to WinCE? and are you using the JFFS2
> images?
> 
> Phil
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ilug-admin at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-admin at linux.ie]On Behalf Of Liam
> Bedford
> Sent: 27 March 2001 16:27
> To: ilug at linux.ie
> Subject: Re: [ILUG] PDAs...
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 03:38:23PM +0100, John P. Looney came forth with:
> 
>>  Anyone know what's the best PDA for linux use ? I've seen the Cassiopeia
>> and the iPaq running Lisa Linux most excellently, and I want.
>> 
> 
> dunno what's in the cassiopeia, but the ipaq is loverly with linux.. :)
> 
> L.
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