OT: Pocket PC

[Mark Robson]

Very cool.  I have a Casio BE-300.  

Does this require something loaded on the PDA, or is
it just on the desktop?  The BE-300 only has 8mb
native, and a CF slot.

--- "Kevin E. Glosser" <keg at adelphia.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 17:21, Richard Hubbard wrote:
> > The pocket pc's are not based on an intel chip, so
> you
> > wont be able to just install a distro of linux
> onto a
> > pocket pc.
> 
> True, however, people have been running linux on
> these processors for a
> while. There has been a decent amount of effort to
> get linux running on
> them.
> 
> I own a Cassiopeia E200(200 Mhz arm processor, 64 Mb
> RAM, 32 Mb ROM,
> Microsoft Pocket PC 2002 OS) and although I have not
> put linux on it, I
> do use it with my linux box.
> 
> I sync it with Ximian Evolution, like I used to with
> Microsoft
> Outlook(using Activesync). Although, not every bit
> of functionality has
> been ported over. It syncs addressbooks and
> calendar, but not email or
> files yet. You can transfer files manually though.
> 
> For those interested, look up the "synce" and
> "multisync" projects. They
> are very cool and still early in development. Well,
> here's some URL's to
> get you started...
> 
> http://synce.sourceforge.net/synce/
> 
> http://multisync.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Read carefully the information on these sites. Make
> sure you have all
> the prerequisites before you start installing rpm's.
> 
> KEG
> 


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