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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.
-The native operating system on these is [MicrosoftWindows] CE, now known as "PocketPC", but you can install Linux on them.
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-* [iPAQ
Linux portal|http://www.ipaqlinux.com/]
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[Familiar|http://familiar.handhelds.org/], a Linux distribution for the iPAQ.
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-Just
like on big brother PC Linux, there are two major competing [DesktopEnvironment]s:
+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
:
* [GPE|http://gpe.handhelds.org/], based on [GTK] (like [GNOME])
* [OPIE|http://opie.handhelds.org/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/], based on [Qt] (like [KDE]).
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.
