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September 06, 2002
Zaurus with Opie
Picked up a Zaurus the other day. I'm astounded that the general PDA purchasing public might want Linux PDAs, but as a developer I'm delighted.
I've flashed in the OpenZaurus kernel, so now linux lives on a flashROM and takes up no memory. The kernel is built with no ramdisk, so all 64Meg are available for software -- cool! I leave a 64M SD card in the box to host Qtopia, and if I pop it out I still have a linux PDA with a command line. The CF slot is great for docs, images, etc. -- and works well with the 1G card from my camera.
Best of all -- I can rotate the screen and use a browser with more width than height, the way most pages are laid out. Sweet!
Posted by Michael at September 6, 2002 11:52 AM
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