This popular LinuxDevices.com article series explores the history, status, alternative architectures, and future developments of Linux on PDAs and handheld devices. In this series, we investigate various Linux PDA environments in detail, examining their ease of installation, cross-development, and use. Be sure to read them all.

Part 1: Exploring Linux PDA software alternatives
This article is the introduction to the series and provides an overview of three currently available PDA Linux distributions.

Part 2: Hacking the iPAQ with Linux, for fun and profit
In this installment, we prepare for future exploration of three "off-the-shelf" iPAQ PDA distro's, by obtaining, installing, and testing the "generic" iPAQ Linux support from handhelds.org.

Part 3: Installing Microwindows on the iPAQ
This installment explains how to download, install, configure, and test the Microwindows Development Toolkit by Century Software. Learn how to install the full X-based simulation of the iPAQ ScreenTop environment on your desktop Linux box--that way, you can develop and run iPAQ apps while you're waiting for your iPAQ to arrive (or if you aren't ready to buy one)!

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PAQ apps while you're waiting for your iPAQ to arrive (or if you aren't ready to buy one)!

Part 4: Installing the Qt Palmtop Environment on the iPAQ
In this installment, we learn how to download, install, configure, and test Trolltech's Qt Palmtop Environment (QPE), and what it's like to develop handheld apps using QPE.

Part 5: A developer's perspective on PocketLinux
In this installment, we learn about the architecture, environment, and programming techniques used to develop applications with the Transvirtual Technologies PocketLinux PDA framework.

Part 6: A developer's perspective on Agenda's VR3 Linux PDA
In this installment, we take a close-up look at the new Agenda VR3 Linux PDA, from both a user and developer point of view.

Other articles of interest include:

An interview with IBM's Linux Wrist Watch project leader
The project leader of the IBM Linux Wrist Watch project discusses the goals and objectives of the project--which was, basically, to see if Linux could be embedded into a device as tiny as a wrist watch. Did they succeed?

My Linux is smaller than your Linux
This comparison of several small-footprint implementations of Linux, while by no means exhaustive in its review of available implementations, provides a good indication of what is possible.

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