Linux Applications for Miscellaneous PDAs

Miscellaneous Apps

pywincedb

pywincedb is a Python module to access native Windows CE databases and set of tools to manipulate them (conversion to/from XML, migration).

PERL Modules

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Psion::
::Db idpO Handle Psion palmtop computer database [..] IANPX
HP200LX::
::DB cdpO Handle HP 200LX palmtop computer database GGONTER
::DBgui cdpO Tk base GUI for HP 200LX db files GGONTER

SyncLICE

SyncLICE (Sync Linux and CE) sets up a PPP connection over a serial line between a Linux box and a Windows CE device using pppd. Upon connection ipchain rules are created, giving the CE device a TCP/IP connection needed for communication.

suricate

Suricate makes the Meerkat open wire service usable on handheld devices, wireless email appliances, and interactive pagers. It is meant to address the needs of people that have email provided on their handheld devices but no Web access. Suricate will push the wire service content to the user. Suricate currently provides Meerkat content for several channels/profiles such as Apache, Linux, Mozilla, MySQL, Perl, PHP, Python, Wireless, and XML.

The Microwindows Project

Microwindows is an Open Source project aimed at bringing the features of modern graphical windowing environments to smaller devices and platforms. Microwindows allows applications to be built and tested on the Linux desktop, as well as cross-compiled for the target device. Microwindows' genesis was with the NanoGUI project, and has now been combined into a single distribution. The Win32/WinCE API implementation is known as Microwindows, and the Xlib-like API implementation is known as Nano-X.

Linux Ports

• The page by Russell King about ARM Linux at ARM-Linux about PDAs with ARM CPU and with many links to other Linux related PDA sites.
• AFAIK you can run Linux on the IBM PC110 (a tiny PC handheld that's no longer manufactured). There's a HOWTO on it running around somewhere but I don't have an URL, instead I found a description in LINUX REDUX July 1997 by Alan Cox.

Credits

Thanks to

• Linux/IrDA project and the members of the Linux/IrDA mailing list.
• Ben Attias <hfspc002_at_csun.edu>.
• Nathan Myers <ncm_at_linuxlaptops.com> from Linux Laptops.
• Andreas Gohr <a.gohr_at_web.de
• Klaus Singvogel <ks_at_caldera.de>.

Applications for other PDAs you may find at Linux and PDAs.