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First Looks at Linux DA PDA

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the all-this-for-under-a-hundred-clams dept.

e1en0r writes "My Linux DA PDA finally arrived yesterday. It's a great PDA for under $100. I put up a review of it here. It's very similar to the Palm OS, with a few more interesting features. The most notable being the file manager. You can see where everything is and view all the files in text and hexadecimal mode. It also appears that you can overclock the 16 MHz DragonBall CPU up to 25 MHz. There are some screenshots on their site, which include the CPU Speed application. Unfortunately that application is lacking in documentation." The review is a little thin, but its still cool seeing these in the wild.

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  1. My God... by trilucid · · Score: 1, Redundant


    Even in my darkest days of true geekdom I was never this bad. :)

    I mean, I know it runs Linux, and it looks nice and all, but how much digital crud do we really want to strap on our bodies anyhow? A certain borg analogy comes to mind...

    NOTE: grep -r "humour" > your ;)

  2. Re:I don't get it. by Jay+Carlson · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hey moderators, mod parent up. The AC said what I was gonna say.

  3. Not very useful, not even very linux by not_cub · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Hopefully this will get modded down as redundant as hundreds of people read the link. (Or not). From the article:

    DataSync Program Only Available in MS Windows Platform

    Um, so this "linux pda" requires me to use windows on my real machine. Doesn't that defeat the purpose of having linux on a pda in the first place (ie cater to us geeks on slashdot)? What is the company thinking to release a product with such a benefit-destroying feature. Reminds me of a dilbert strip where Dilbert is asked to add a standby light to a battery operated product.


    not_cub

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