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Sharp Readies SL-5000D

Posted by Hemos on from the released-to-the-world dept.

Anders writes "infoSync has a story and pictures of Sharps new Linux-device SL-5000D, which runs on Embedix Linux 2.4 with Jeode's PersonalJava, using Qt/Embedded and the Qt Palmtop Environment, and will be capable of running applications coded either in Linux or in Java."

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  1. Re:Any standard in the linux pda field? by vorpal22 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ahhh... unfortunately with Linux, there never *is* a standard. Linux PDAs will suffer from the same problem that Linux desktops will suffer from... GNOME vs. KDE, Motif vs. GTK+ vs. Qt vs. Xaw3d vs. a million other GUIs, RedHat vs. Mandrake vs. Slackware vs. Debian vs. Caldera vs. SuSe, etc... etc... etc.... Choice is a good thing, but when standards are sacrificed, chaos emerges and things simply fail.

    Linux is good for what it is... an operating system and a toy for geeks. But I don't care what anyone says. Linux simply isn't ready for everyday desktop usage, and definitely not ready for a PDA.

    When you go to Tucows to download apps for your Linux PDA, you're going to have to navigate your way through a series of menus and be left with three apps for your specific processor and PDA - since every PDA will use a different embedded GUI, in all likelihood.