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Re: VGA PDA solutions

From: Adam Immanuel <>
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 13:01:42 +0200

Jobe Bittman writes:
> http://www.handhelds.org/z/wiki/iPaq%20h5500%20notes

Wow, thanks! This is fantastic, now I can buy an Ipaq 5550, which
is certainly a piece of great and compact hardware. Since they were
released I've searched for a distro but I had just recently given up
on this issue. 

Some annyoing facts are though, that Compaq used Linux when they
were developing Ipaq (the Itsy, I saw it in Pittsburg 1998).
Further on, when buying an Ipaq, some fraction of the price will
go to Microsoft, which I don't have any interrest in supporting.
As when I buy laptops (I mostly use Dell Latitudes), I have to
buy it with a MS distribution as well, which I can neither sell
nor give away, as they are only running on Dell. My strategy use
to be to buy it with the smallest hard disk available, then buy
the largest hard disk available and install Linux on it. Implying
that I will have bunch of small useless hard disks and MS distros. 

 --- Adam Immanuel <> wrote:
> I simply don't understand what you mean. As I understand there is
> no Linux distro working with the Ipaq 5550 and similar with builtin
> WLAN and bluetooth so what is the point?

Best regards and thanks!
aim 

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