Many manufacturers of small mobile computers have a look into Linux. There are different reasons, to do so: first of all reduction of developement and license costs, then flexibility, standards, portability and more. See TuxMobil for a survey of Linux on laptops, notebooks, PDAs, handhelds, TabletPCs, mobile cell phones, watches,... Though often their announcements are nothing more than vaporware, to generate some marketing without any advertising costs, e.g. different laptop manufacturers have done so.
At least with laptops DELL seems to provide almost only links to community sites. No drivers, no detailed technical specifications, no funding,...
See the Laptop Manufacturers - Linux Status Survey at TuxMobil, for details about Linux support provided by laptop and notebook manufacturers. It's a short story;-)
You may even find some more arguments (not only from the end-users point of view) in my presentation slides about Linux on PDAs. For example a very important argument for manufacturers to use Open Source software on PDAs and mobile (cell) phones are the costs of operating system licenses.
In 1996-1997 a book by Naba Barkakati "Linux Secrets" stated on the cover "Linux is a registered trademark of William R. Della Croce, Jr.". Thanks to good lawyers and support from numerous institutions and people Linus Torvalds has got the trademark back finally (see LinuxJournal 31). After that there have been cases against many Free Software projects. To name a few:
Krayon
Killustrator (charged by Adobe)
MobiliX, which is now TuxMobil (charged by Asterix and Obelix)
MobICQ, which will soon be renamed to Jimm ( charged by AOL)
Which other cases do you remember? Please let me know, because I will write a documentation.
There are Linux cell phones already. See the TuxMobil - Linux on/with mobile cell phones survey. There is also a hardware compatibility list - HCL ordered by manufacturers about connectivity options between a Linux machine and non-Linux cell phones.
I have tried to confirm this posting at the news section of NOKIA. As far as I could see there is no official news about Perl on NOKIAs phones. Perhaps we have to wait for the recently announced mobile Linux cell phones.
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Imagine PalmOS as an Open Source project, such a problem wouldn't occur. So why not choose a Linux PDA to connect to MAC OS-X?
Many manufacturers of small mobile computers have a look into Linux. There are different reasons, to do so: first of all reduction of developement and license costs, then flexibility, standards, portability and more. See TuxMobil for a survey of Linux on laptops, notebooks, PDAs, handhelds, TabletPCs, mobile cell phones, watches, ... Though often their announcements are nothing more than vaporware, to generate some marketing without any advertising costs, e.g. different laptop manufacturers have done so.
At least with laptops DELL seems to provide almost only links to community sites. No drivers, no detailed technical specifications, no funding, ...
See the Laptop Manufacturers - Linux Status Survey at TuxMobil, for details about Linux support provided by laptop and notebook manufacturers. It's a short story ;-)
See the go2z tutorial about how to convert your PDA applications and transform the PIM data to a Linux PDA.
You may even find some more arguments (not only from the end-users point of view) in my presentation slides about Linux on PDAs. For example a very important argument for manufacturers to use Open Source software on PDAs and mobile (cell) phones are the costs of operating system licenses.
In 1996-1997 a book by Naba Barkakati "Linux Secrets" stated on the cover "Linux is a registered trademark of William R. Della Croce, Jr.". Thanks to good lawyers and support from numerous institutions and people Linus Torvalds has got the trademark back finally (see LinuxJournal 31). After that there have been cases against many Free Software projects. To name a few:
Which other cases do you remember? Please let me know, because I will write a documentation.
Who will be next?
There are already many Linux distributions dedicated/ported to Apple's hardware. Especially there are many Linux installation reports on Apple PowerBooks and iBooks.
Right, there are many more *free* Linux PDAs distributions. At least
OPIE
Familiar
OpenZaurus
PocketWorkstation - based on Debian/GNU Linux
There is a survey of Linux on PDAs at TuxMobil.
Just in case your are developing with Linux, here is a list of Linux installation reports on Tablet PCs, Pen Pads, Convertibles and WebPads. This might as well serve as a concise overview about available Tablet PCs in general. There are also pointers to Linux applications for such machines.
There are more than 7,000 signments of the Intel Support of Centrino Under Linux and the number is still increasing. Also Centrino laptops are already very popular among Linux geeks, see these Linux installation reports on Centrino laptops and notebooks.
There are Linux cell phones already. See the TuxMobil - Linux on/with mobile cell phones survey. There is also a hardware compatibility list - HCL ordered by manufacturers about connectivity options between a Linux machine and non-Linux cell phones.
You may find Linux installation reports for 64bit CPU laptops at TuxMobil - Linux On Mobile Computers.
I have tried to confirm this posting at the news section of NOKIA. As far as I could see there is no official news about Perl on NOKIAs phones. Perhaps we have to wait for the recently announced mobile Linux cell phones.
Because it is more than just hardware auto-recognition. For details look up my proposal for a Debian GNU/Linux Laptop Distribution.
You may have a look at Linux on IBM laptops and Linux on Sony laptops. There are entries for laptops equipped with a LinuxBIOS.
Try to have a closer look to the list. At the right of the manufacturer survey there is a column "community". Click on the appropriate link ;-)
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