Well, if you have a problem with the Microsoft tax, you can wait for the Zaurus, which not only "punishes" (not quite the word I want, but oh well) Compaq for choosing Microsoft, but rewards Sharp for choosing Linux. (Now, if only the would do so for the MM-20 as well...) As far as the laptops go, if you feel strongly enough about it you could get an iBook or PowerBook (I like my 12" iBook, and it it's cheaper than the Dell) 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 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/ -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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