Re: [iPAQ] "Dual Boot"

If we had a magic wand and infinite resources, we'd wave it this direction.

Right now, however, there are more important fish to fry, and the bits
aren't really to the point where someone gets an iPAQ to compare with
WindowsCE: people run Linux on an iPAQ for fundamentally different reasons
than people buy a WindowsCE PDA.

This may change in the future, but it is certainly the present.

In the meanwhile, if it is important to you, by all means get it working.

                                        - Jim
> Sender: ipaq-admin@handhelds.org
> From: "Noel J. Bergman" <noel@devtech.com>
> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 18:02:04 -0400
> To: "Laird Popkin" <laird@io.com>,
> "Dirk van Hennekeler" <dirk.vanhennekeler@compaq.com>
> Cc: <ipaq@handhelds.org>, <france@crl.dec.com>, <jamey@crl.dec.com>
> Subject: RE: [iPAQ] "Dual Boot"
> -----
> Laird,
>
> > I think that a dual boot is tremendously useful in two cases:
> > 1) There aren't any useful Linux PDA apps (yet), and
> > 2) Make it non-threatening for WinCE users to migrate to Linux.
>
> I agree with you on both counts. The former issue is more important to me,
> but I would think that the latter is more of a marketing issue for Compaq.
> True, they don't exactly make money from Linux on the iPAQ, but they could
> make even MORE iPAQ sales by promoting the iPAQ as a handheld Linux device
> that is non-threatening to WinCE users. And get even more and better press.
> At the moment, however, more sales and press for the iPAQ is a lot like coal
> for Newcastle.
>

--
Jim Gettys
Technology and Corporate Development
Compaq Computer Corporation
jg@pa.dec.com