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Hello Tom I have had my Sharp Zaurus 5500 now for over 2 years & it is very good (even has a keyboard hidden under the control buttons). Sharp did release a 5600 which was a slight improvement on the 5500 but it was never sold in the UK. I would imaging the 5500 can now be picked up for under £100 or less. There is also plenty of software available both free & comerical one of the best sites for software downloads is http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/ There are also several different versions of linux you can install on the Zaurus such as open zaurus. Sharp in the US & Japan are still producing new Linux PDA's however they don't look like they don't look like they will be over here for quite some time if at all. Steve On 7/21/05, Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thursday 21 July 2005 7:44 pm, Tom Arrow wrote: > > Hi, > > Just wondering if ever I want to invest in a pda (I would like to but at > > the moment I'm skint). Which PDAs are sold running Linux, what price are > > they and where can I buy one. Just want to know how much I'm looking to > > save up. This PDA would need to run Linux have all the uses of a standard > > PDA. Iv tryed to find out as much about as I can but most sites don't > > understand the search term 'Linux'. > > Thanks > > Try searching for Zaurus and Yopy. > > Also, if you want something bigger than a PDA but smaller than a laptop, there > is a lot of work on getting Debian to run on a Psion. There are already > prototypes that can run Gnome and Gnumeric. Try looking under embedded > Debian. > > Don't forget that Palm are looking at a Linux kernel and their PalmOS5 isn't > that difficult to use on GNU systems due to the excellent pilot-link (!). > > My Palm PDA cost under £150 - it's about the cheapest sensible PDA that is > still extendable and reasonably robust. > > -- > > Neil Williams > ============= > http://www.data-freedom.org/ > http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ > http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ > > > > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html