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The handheld that will make you like Linux (ZDNet)

[Posted June 11, 2003 by corbet]

ZDNet reviews the Zaurus SL-5600. "As I said, I'm not a geek. But I have associates who are. One is a programmer, and he loves his Zaurus. He claims he uses it less like a handheld and more like a little Linux desktop. He can program it. He can program with it. And therein lies the reason that the Zaurus also deserves serious consideration from business users. Because the Zaurus uses Linux, companies can adapt their enterprise-level apps to work, if not on it, then with it. While nobody would actually want to do so in real life, Sharp has run the Linux-based Apache Web server and mySQL on the Zaurus, just to prove that it can be done."

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Posted Jun 12, 2003 13:11 UTC (Thu) by trode (guest, #11680) [Link]

Thus, why I love mine.

The handheld that will make you like Linux (ZDNet)

Posted Jun 13, 2003 8:34 UTC (Fri) by jmshh (guest, #8257) [Link]

Unfortunately this device is available in America and Japan (named SL-B500 there) only. It has never made it to the European consumer market. Here its predecessor SL-5500 is currently being phased out due to future unavailability of its CPU, with a successor yet to be named :-( (see www.zaurus.de)

If and when that changes, I'm going to get one and expecting to like mine too.