On Tue, 11 Feb 2020, at 16:09, Richard Owlett wrote: > I wish to enter/store data while away from home. The data will then be > transferred to my laptop via a USB cable. [Think the capability of one > of the old Palm Pilots in a smartphone(sic) form factor]
You might want to skim through the discussions at https://www.oesf.org/forum - which discuss various PDA and similar machines. Eg there's lots of Gemini PDAs available ro likely to be because their manufacturer has brought out a new model - a thing called the Cosmo Communicator. They're not cheap, new, but second hand ones might be more affordable. My impression is that a lot of these machines although theoretically able to run linux don't have sufficient developers able to work on them for all the wrinkles to be fixed. That is, other OSes may be bootable but it's strictly "enthusiasts only" territory. > It must use a standard Linux (Debian preferred). Why? Surely all you need is a decent text editor, and a file manager. > The manufacturer should ship with the Linux installed. > Android is *UNACCEPTABLE*! Why? If you only use the machine to write data to an SD card, why is the OS a problem? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.
