Posted by
emmett
on from the tux-in-the-palm-of-your-hand dept.
SuperJ writes "It looks like the good people of Royal are planning to ship Linux on their line of DaVinci handhelds. Check it out the story at PDA Buzz." We've seen the DaVinci before as the target of a preliminary injunction from 3Com.
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Well, to start with, all the practical and ideological reasons why free/open source software is preferable to closed software. ESR and RMS have written books worth of essays on the advantages.
Second, because a PDA Linux has all the API-similarity advantages vis-a-vis Linux/Unix that WinCE has vis-a-vis Win32.
We don't need Linux on a PDA. But from a vendor's point of view it makes life a lot easier. They don't have to build an O/S, or buy one and then adapt the front end to fit. They have the source for the O/S, they can modify this to fit the requirements of their application.
We are already starting to see the Linux/UNIX as a basis for appliances, think of the Cobalt servers, Macintosh O/S etc. I suspect we will be seeing a lot more of them appearing, hence Linus's interest in embedded Linux.
The day PDAs are more like computers and less like glorified calendars is the day the market will really take off.
Really? I suppose you'd want a WindowsCE device, then. For a few years now, Microsoft has been making the OS that turns convenient, simple devices into horribly complicated messes that admittedly have a buttload more features than PalmOS (hopefully) ever will. Have you ever needed to change memory allocation settings because an application wouldn't run? Have you found yourself running out of memory because twelve tasks are running invisibly in the background?
Please. If you want a handheld computer, you have options (WinCE, Psion, etc.) If you want a device that helps you organize and run nifty software as well, Palm is the one. "The day PDAs are more like computers and less like glorified calendars" has come and gone, and people still flock to the Palm Computing Platform.
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Will the linux davinci synch with linux?
by
RattRigg
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I like my davinci, but it seems to me that the big complaint (along with the crappy hand writing recognition ) is the fact that you cant synch with linux. If they use Linux for an OS but still require win98 to synch I think they may be missing the idea.
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Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
A tale of a Slashdot trip
That started from this Linux post
Aboard this Natalie ship.
The mate was a mighty karma whore,
The Llama brave and sure.
Five trolls made firsts that day
For a free trollin' tour, a free trollin' tour.
The moderatin' started getting rough,
The tiny thread was tossed,
If not for the grits of the flamebait crew
The Natalie would be lost, the Natalie would be lost.
The trolls set posts on the thread of this opensouce Linux site
With Postmastah
The Llama too,
The Natalie guy and his Drew,
The Hot Grits guy
The Trollmastah and Petrified,
Here on flamebait Isle.
So this is the thread of the Slashdot trolls,
They're here for a long, long time,
They'll have to make the best of things,
It's an uphill climb.
The karma whore and the Llama too,
Will do their very best,
To make the posters comfortable,
With the anti-karma post.
No sig, no points and off topic,
Not a single karma key,
Like Robinson Crusoe,
As primative as can be.
So join us here each thread my freinds,
You're sure to get a smile,
From seven stranded post trollers,
Here on flamebait Isle."
.
Trollmastah
Well, to start with, all the practical and ideological reasons why free/open source software is preferable to closed software. ESR and RMS have written books worth of essays on the advantages.
Second, because a PDA Linux has all the API-similarity advantages vis-a-vis Linux/Unix that WinCE has vis-a-vis Win32.
We are already starting to see the Linux/UNIX as a basis for appliances, think of the Cobalt servers, Macintosh O/S etc. I suspect we will be seeing a lot more of them appearing, hence Linus's interest in embedded Linux.
If you want to know more about the daVinci have a look at:
http://go.to/davinci
Jan
The day PDAs are more like computers and less like glorified calendars is the day the market will really take off.
Really? I suppose you'd want a WindowsCE device, then. For a few years now, Microsoft has been making the OS that turns convenient, simple devices into horribly complicated messes that admittedly have a buttload more features than PalmOS (hopefully) ever will. Have you ever needed to change memory allocation settings because an application wouldn't run? Have you found yourself running out of memory because twelve tasks are running invisibly in the background?
Please. If you want a handheld computer, you have options (WinCE, Psion, etc.) If you want a device that helps you organize and run nifty software as well, Palm is the one. "The day PDAs are more like computers and less like glorified calendars" has come and gone, and people still flock to the Palm Computing Platform.
For more information, click here.
I like my davinci, but it seems to me that the big complaint (along with the crappy hand writing recognition ) is the fact that you cant synch with linux.
If they use Linux for an OS but still require win98 to synch I think they may be missing the idea.
I started with nothing and I still have most of it.