On Tuesday 10 December 2002 5:52 pm, brad wrote:
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:17:53PM -0500, Brett Russ wrote:
brad wrote:
Are there any other ipaq owners which would like to have this done?
These are all good questions.
Yeah, I would if you tell me I can reliably sync between Linux and Windows
I believe this is possible. I will look into specifics.
and there are capable contact/task/calendar/etc apps that work well on the ipaq platform.
Calendars are pretty simple to display on different platforms with the ical file format.
Good...
Task, contacts ... i'll have to look this up. I believe contacts can sync okay with outlook. Again i'll look into this.
How about evolution? And I'm surprised that aethera isn't slated to sync with it's own apps....
How about sound recording/playback functionality?
This sort of works, there's development beening done in this area.
ogg playback? Using theKompany's player? Maybe?
What LAN/WLAN cards are supported?
Yes, there are a few that are supported. I don't know this ones, i'll look for a hardware compat list.
I'd like to see the list, if you find a decent url....
These are the worries I have. I will go to handhelds.org and read up a bit but sometimes experienced users find that the info read on a site is not as rosy IRL.
Yeah, these are all logical concerns. For some people converting to linux doesn't make sence. There are a few downfalls from linux on the ipaq, off the top of head. - no pocket word, excel, outlook etc.
Opie's stuff is good, and theKompany's programs should work on an iPAQ, or so they say...
- no natural handwritting recognition (only character recognition, like the palm)
I though qtopia had trainable letter recognition? And I don't like handwriting recognition, mostly because I've got terrible handwriting....
- Hardware is less supported.
thanks & I would like to start attending meetings also,
Perhaps after i give a little demonstration, you'll have a better idea whether converting your ipaq is for you.
--brad
I'd sugguest two computers doing the setup.... one with a serial connection to do the bootloader and initial install (if there's a couple of iPAQs) and another with usb networking setup do polish it off. How hard is it to set up usb networking? Wes
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