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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Zaurus and Linux
« on: September 25, 2004, 06:17:23 pm »
Dear Zaurus Users
Recently I bought a Zaurus 5500 with the idea of having a "full Linux" PDA.
As far as I believe to have understood so far, the situation is such that an executable that would run under a Linux PC (I'm not a Linux specialist at all, allthough I have some experience with Unix) would not run on my Zaurus even if the executable is small in size (knowing about the memory constrains of a PDA).
So far, all I got to run are executables with an _arm.ipk extension what makes me think that only programms that have been targeted (and compiled) towards a Zaurus are really usable - or am I getting something wrong ?
What frustrates me in this business is that I can not really see what the advantages of a so called Linux PDA are if you can not even run a normal Linux program on it - besides the fact that it gives the cosy feeling of being able to use some Linux comands in a command line interface.
Is there anybody that can soothe my frustation ?
Hermann
Recently I bought a Zaurus 5500 with the idea of having a "full Linux" PDA.
As far as I believe to have understood so far, the situation is such that an executable that would run under a Linux PC (I'm not a Linux specialist at all, allthough I have some experience with Unix) would not run on my Zaurus even if the executable is small in size (knowing about the memory constrains of a PDA).
So far, all I got to run are executables with an _arm.ipk extension what makes me think that only programms that have been targeted (and compiled) towards a Zaurus are really usable - or am I getting something wrong ?
What frustrates me in this business is that I can not really see what the advantages of a so called Linux PDA are if you can not even run a normal Linux program on it - besides the fact that it gives the cosy feeling of being able to use some Linux comands in a command line interface.
Is there anybody that can soothe my frustation ?
Hermann