Re: FOSS friendly PDA?
On Tue, 11 Feb 2020, at 16:09, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I wish to enter/store data while away from home. The data will then be
> transferred to my laptop via a USB cable. [Think the capability of one
> of the old Palm Pilots in a smartphone(sic) form factor]
You might want to skim through the discussions at
https://www.oesf.org/forum
- which discuss various PDA and similar machines.
Eg there's lots of Gemini PDAs available ro likely to be because their
manufacturer has brought out a new model - a thing called the
Cosmo Communicator.
They're not cheap, new, but second hand ones might be more
affordable.
My impression is that a lot of these machines although theoretically
able to run linux don't have sufficient developers able to work on
them for all the wrinkles to be fixed. That is, other OSes may be
bootable but it's strictly "enthusiasts only" territory.
> It must use a standard Linux (Debian preferred).
Why? Surely all you need is a decent text editor, and a file manager.
> The manufacturer should ship with the Linux installed.
> Android is *UNACCEPTABLE*!
Why? If you only use the machine to write data to an SD
card, why is the OS a problem?
--
Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.
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