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The iPAQ is a [PDA] originally manufactured by [Compaq], and later rebranded as [HP] when Compaq were purchased. It's not an abbreviation, more a shortening of Compaq, in the same vein as [iPod]. No one can really agree how to capitalize it. |
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The native operating system on these is [MicrosoftWindows] CE, now known as "PocketPC", but you can install Linux on them. The main distribution of Linux is called [Familiar|http://familiar.handhelds.org/], and just like on big brother PC Linux, there are two major competing [DesktopEnvironment]s for Familiar: |
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* [GPE|http://gpe.handhelds.org/], based on [GTK] (like [GNOME]) |
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* [OPIE|http://opie.handhelds.org/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/], based on [Qt] (like [KDE]). |
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To synch files from Linux the most popular project appears to be [Synce|http://sourceforge.net/projects/synce/], but look into [Multisync|http://sourceforge.net/projects/multisync/] as well. |
