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Jornada Killed, iPaq To Live On

Posted by Hemos on from the smart-move-of-the-two dept.

MartinG writes "According to the news at handhelds.org "HP/Compaq merger completed. HP Jornada will be discontinued in favor of HP iPAQ. HP Labs will continue to support Linux on the iPAQ. In particular, we plan to complete the Linux port to the Jornada 56x." I couldn't see any further details, but interesting news nonetheless."

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  1. I don't get this.. by distributed.karma · · Score: 2, Insightful
    "Jornada killed, iPAQ to live on."

    "New stuff is developed for Jornada. iPAQ support still continues."

    Doesn't that sound a little contradictory? From the latter you could imagine it's iPAQ killed and Jornada lives on...

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  2. Didn't we talk about this already? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do we have to keep rehashing information? Can we talk about new and interesting things every once in a while?

    We discussed this issue earlier this week... The editors are really getting lame.

  3. why pay the microsoft tax? by Kunta+Kinte · · Score: 2, Insightful
    If you want a linux pda, why pay the ms tax? And fund more predatory behavior? Just get a zaurus.

    Check out opie.handhelds.org/ For a great distro for handhelds. supports ipaq, zaurus, and I think others. This project, could do wonders, for unifying linux PDAs on a single platform.

    With countless stories every day on how Microsoft is evil, and Microsoft practices must be stopped ( more articles than I could stomach usually ), I'm surprised on how eagerly slashdot jumps on their products. Guess what, you're funding them!!

    By buying their products, you're speaking with the voice that counts, your money.

    The zaurus is a great tool. I love mine. Everyone was raving yesterday about how the clie had a software writing area that's hideable, guess what, the zaurus has that. And it has a built in keyboard, and a screen keyboard, and a unicode keyboard...

    And don't talk about software either. Because, there are tons of ARM linux software. In places like zaurus.sourceforge.com http://zaurusoft.com http://opie.handhelds.com http://myzaurus.com http://ipkgfind.handhelds.org http://www.debian.org/ports/arm

    so go ahead. complain that microsoft is bullying the educational institutes, that their licenses prevent OEMs from distributing alternative OSes, that they want to prevent us from being able to buy computers without paying them everytime...

    Then go buy their friggin' products.

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  4. This is too bad by chafey · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I own a Jornada 568 and prefer its form factor to that of the iPaq. The iPaq requires a very thick sleeve to support add in cards compared to the Jornada which does not. My coworker's iPaq is quite a bit bulkier with a sleeve and wireles adapter compared to my Jornada with a wireless adapter. I haven't used an iPaq so maybe I am missing something, but from a form factor view, this doesn't seem like the best decision.