Re: [jornada] Jornada 720 vs Sharp Zaurus

At 2002/10/08 10:14:48 Time Domain backup mail account wrote:

tds> ...as an MP3 player and that one day I could replace WinCE with Linux or NetBSD.
tds>
tds> One year on, it has performed admirably as a terminal and got my clients
tds> out of trouble many times - logging into some really busy web servers from
tds> a beach in Tenerife or a bar in London and sorting out problems, etc, it's
tds> been really great. As an MP3 player (even with a 256MB CF flash card), it's
tds> not so good as the only way to get MP3 files into it is via a Windows sync
tds> connection which is a fat lot of good if you're not a Windoze user.

You can use either a card reader and a FAT-formatted storage card to get files over or use FTP

And
tds> I've never been able to find any clear information on running Linux or
tds> NetBSD on it.
tds>

Running Linux or NetBSD on this thing in an useful fashion is technically only possible with extensive and very costly hardware modifications as certain functions depend on WindowsCE

tds> I'm now looking enviously at the Sharp Zaurus - apart from running Linux
tds> and being a familiar environment for me, getting files into/out of it
tds> seems easy using standard ftp, nfs etc. But what's the keyboard really
tds> like to use? It seems tiny compared with the 720's - this is very important
tds> to me as a mainly shell user and one reason why I chose the 720 over, say,
tds> the iPaq. If the keyboard's anything like as usable as the 720, I'm buying
tds> a Zaurus.

You will find the SL-5500 far less usable than the HP7** range , take into account that to get the most out of the Zaurus you will need the HP720LX in exactly the configuration you have now , so you have to carry , feed , and use two devices instead of one

Rainer Keuchel in Germany has developed an open-source toolkit to convert WindowsCE into X-WindowsCE ( no kidding !) including all the usual tools , this includes also the Apache Web server and ssh

k
Received on Tue Oct 08 22:30:11 2002