Bought a used O2 XDA 2

[stubbe]

... and so my first impression is... these PDAs are merely rich kids toy. Organizers, scheduling, I haven't found much use to it.

Overall this is the dumbest thing I ever bought. Nothing much of use for me. But since I've bought it anyway thought I just play with it and use it until it exhausted. Notes, pocket excel and pocket word well, these are the apps I often use. I want to look for drawing software, found a center of pocket pc freewares providing drawing apps, but I dunno which one is good.

But anyway how about linux on pocket pc? anyone have done any experiment on it? or any distro?

[bigtomrodney]

I toyed with buying my mate's XDA2 and running Familiar Linux on it but I figured that it would be a pain to get the phone functionality running on it. The camera on the XDA is good fun though, especially fullscreen.

[bidi]

I have a Toshiba GenioE, and actually like it! It hasn't been very useful lately, but I've used it in the past to write notes! It came with MS Office for Pocket PC, so I could write a lot of measurements in Excel instead of on a piece of paper, for example. Now-a-days it's just pretty much a music player! I also have a wireless card for it (haven't used it in a while though, sucks up too much power) which makes it nice whenever I'm not doing anything.

As for running Linux on it, I've never tried. It's hooked up to my main box (Debian), even though it doesn't work right now, and /var/log/messages recognizes it as an iPAQ, but I haven't considered installing anything else on it! I might get around to it someday, but right now I can't even access it, I get stuff in and out from it using a SD card.

[stubbe]

Turn out I got this thing a little bit pricier that it should be... dang!

yeah so I played with it for awhile now. Not really a bad thing tho. I downloaded some painting software hey now I could draw when I'm idle or something. Also installed agile messenger, cool. Not bad.

I'm still using windows XP here, so activesync really helps alot.Specially with bluetooth. It makes life easier when dealing with these PDAs.

But anyway how's the procedure on re-installing a whole new operating system on a PDA?

[bidi]

TuxMobil is a great resource for anything to do with a mobile PCs. My PDA also has a reset button, which means if I ever mess with it to the point of no return I can just push two buttons at the same time and bam.

[stubbe]

XDA2 also have 2 reset procedures, soft and hard reset.

As always, seems familiar linux is attractive enough compared to WM. I might give it a try. But I'm also using this PDA for mobile phone.