Running Linux on an iPAQ

By Martyn Honeyford
2005-04-13


Choose Your Hardware
Once you decide you want to try Linux on iPAQ, you need to first choose the iPAQ hardware to use. In general, older hardware is better supported (given that developers have had more time to come to grips with it). Safe bets are H3100, H3600, H3700, H3800, H3900, H5100, H5400, and H5500. Support for newer devices is being added all the time, so if you have a more recent iPAQ, all hope is not lost -- you have the option of getting involved with development versions (even just to test the software, if you have no development experience) or keeping an eye out until your hardware is officially supported. In the meantime, if you can't wait, you could always pick up an older machine secondhand to play with. For my testing, I was able to make use of a rather long-in-the-tooth H3650 model, which we had lying around the office.

Tutorial Pages:
» Put a Penguin in Your Pocket
» Why Run Linux Instead of Pocket PC?
» Choose Your Hardware
» Download the Distribution
» Install Linux
» Get Connected
» Develop for it
» Reinstalling PocketPC
» Conclusion
» Resources


First published by IBM DeveloperWorks

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