- #HOW TO INSTALL LINUX ON A DEAD BADGER MANUALS#
- #HOW TO INSTALL LINUX ON A DEAD BADGER FULL#
- #HOW TO INSTALL LINUX ON A DEAD BADGER PORTABLE#
- #HOW TO INSTALL LINUX ON A DEAD BADGER SOFTWARE#
- #HOW TO INSTALL LINUX ON A DEAD BADGER PC#
There are many possibilities for a device which can be hacked up and turned into new products, and that's what excites me to see stories like this. This story may not be interesting for everyone here, but to state that a Linux port to the PDA is irrelevent would be short sighted at best. Odds are the device would have been slower to market and probably have had fewer features if the Linux port to iPaq handhelds had not existed. We use one at work, it's much lighter than a laptop and works with much less configuration. Fluke for example created a Linux-based wireless network scanner using an iPaq. On the other hand, I think it's great that there is further development with Linux on mobile devices such as this.Īlthough most people may not know this, the port of Linux to the iPaq brought forth several nice embedded systems and even commercial products. It does everything I want, is easy to use and has been very stable. I've used Linux on PDAs in several incarnations but I'm still most productive with my PalmOS-based Sony Clie. You have a point about Linux for typical PDA use. I give credit where it is due and MS is due it for their Windows Mobile OS. I think it is many years away from being close to functional in the way that I need it to be and the way MS's product is today. This is one Linux user that is not going to be running Linux on his PDA. It is the device I turn to when all else fails to get the job done.
#HOW TO INSTALL LINUX ON A DEAD BADGER PC#
I enjoy tinkering with my PC OS but when it comes to my PDA it has to just work and it is for getting serious work done quickly. For your average user Linux might be there on the desktop, and it is my desktop OS, but it certainly is nowhere near there on the PDA. I have never had a problem with any of these things - a testament to how well it has stood up to my extensive use.įrom what I gather from the site Linux is nowhere near there on most, if not all, of these points.
#HOW TO INSTALL LINUX ON A DEAD BADGER MANUALS#
I can read books and manuals in either the Adobe or MS e-book formats. I can take over PCs using RDC or vnc and connect to them with ssh and ftp. I can surf the web including secure online banking sites and check my email with a 802.11b wireless VPN connection. On top of normal note taking and scheduling I can view/edit word documents and excel spreadsheets. I had a Palm based PDA/Cellphone hybrid for two years and had gotten used to Grafiti - the Transcriber handwriting recognition that lets you just write whole sentances on the screen simply amazing and on an entirely different level.
#HOW TO INSTALL LINUX ON A DEAD BADGER SOFTWARE#
It has loads of impressive software availible for it. The unit is cheap, light, fast, stable and with pretty respectable battery life. I have a Dell Axim X30 and I could not be more impressed with MS's latest PDA OS offerings. The point is that the sky's the limit with Linux-whatever you can think up, within the limits of RAM and battery life (which are pretty substantial!) is yours to do.
#HOW TO INSTALL LINUX ON A DEAD BADGER FULL#
I've got kerberos-protected NFS shares full of music, and I can stream music out of those shares from anywhere I can reach my APs.
#HOW TO INSTALL LINUX ON A DEAD BADGER PORTABLE#
Makes an excellent conference-room bug, for checking up on meetings that you can't attend or negotiations that you shouldn't know about-and you record all day if you plug your Ipaq in to charge and then "forget" about it.Ĥ) Portable streaming MP3 player. Turn on a recording app, stream the data via wireless to a laptop somewhere nearby, and you've got at least an hour of recording time on batteries alone. Do you know how much a 12-hour UPS costs?ģ) Since the Ipaq (like the Axim) has a microphone and WiFi, it makes a killer wireless microphone. Jury-rigging a car battery, some DC-DC conversion stuff, and an Ipaq w/ PCMCIA sleeve holding 2x PCMCIA network adapters = an instant router that stayed up, routing 1.5 Mbps DSL to five users, for 12 hours. Break WEP keys, perform breakin demos, and hunt down rogue APs with a pocket-sized monster.Ģ) During the NYC blackout, my ISP was still up and laptops had juice, but my routers ran down the UPS batteries in about 30 minutes. 100x easier than carting a laptop around. Run Kismet, Airsnort, and a lot of other Linux-only tools (any Windows equivalents cost $$$ and have stripped-down handheld versions) for serious portable work. But let me give you a run-down of several of the uses to which I've put my own HP Ipaq (running Linux from !):ġ) Mobile FULL-FEATURED WiFi scanner and auditing kit. You want practical? It's a blue-sky open source development project, you nitwit.