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Hi Richard, Richard Brown <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > [... snip ...] > The new project has a purpose in that I will be working with some > young people. The project is looking at the fore runner to a phone - > a pda! We want to build one using an sbc - Raspberry Pi or maybe > something else and would like some advice on software. Would you use > Android or the full desktop of Linux. Do you know of anyone who has > developed an interface that would be a pda style please? In terms of > the sbc - raspberry pi or would go something else please odroid etc. I wouldn't say Android would be ideal, honestly - but given its used for tablets, it might be -- it really depends on the *typical* use case for the PDA. Bit of an anecdote here, but I remember having a bit of a fascination as a kid growing up with the Windows CE PDAs. I found them fascinating. I don't /think/ that Windows CE is around anymore, but even if it was, I'm not about to recommend it! ;-) Back to the subject of the interface, I'd use a GNU+Linux distribution on the PDA -- how about adapting a UI from Ubuntu Touch? I know its no longer supported by Canonical, but UBports[0] have taken up support and maintainership of it, so I'd take a look there. Not sure if the community is ``active'' per se, but its worth a try, no? I doubt that anyone has made a decent PDA UI though -- but hey, you never know... although I'd really just make my own; which would also work as a fairly good learning experience as well. If you *do* make your own, it'd be great to see the internals behind it! > Or would you simply not start! > > > > Thanks > -- > Kind Regards > > Richard Brown > 07747 343637 > http://gucu.org.uk/ > http://littlebigfoot.org.uk/ [0]: https://fossbytes.com/unity-8-ubuntu-touch-ubports/ Happy hacking. -- Best regards, Dom Rodriguez (shymega / dzr). -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq