<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="SGML-Tools 1.0.9"> <TITLE>Wearable-HOWTO.: OS.</TITLE> <LINK HREF="Wearable-HOWTO-7.html" REL=next> <LINK HREF="Wearable-HOWTO-5.html" REL=previous> <LINK HREF="Wearable-HOWTO.html#toc6" REL=contents> </HEAD> <BODY> <A HREF="Wearable-HOWTO-7.html">Next</A> <A HREF="Wearable-HOWTO-5.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="Wearable-HOWTO.html#toc6">Contents</A> <HR> <H2><A NAME="s6">6. OS.</A> </H2> <P>For the people whose Wearable is based on a PDA, there is little choice : most of the time they have to do with the PDA's manufacturer OS, AFAIK Linux on Psion series 5 is not mainstream. a commercial solution called WindStone primary targeted to palmpilots with a project to port it to ARM based computers it is made by <A HREF="http://www.oski.co.kr/">OSK</A>, so and see. For <A HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/~imp/pdamips.html"> Mips based PDA </A> type; some of them seem to be able to run <A HREF="http://www.netbsd.org">NetBSD</A> ( it is a member of the *BSD family of unices running on a lot of platforms ). <P> <P>For those using a PC derivative, the choice seems to be between Microsoft products or Linux, Well, Microsoft products are not exactly the best choice and DEBIAN/GNU Linux is the winner ( I don't think that for general purposes one has to use a posix .4 compliant kernel ). <P>There is another contender <A HREF="http://www.qnx.com">QNX</A>, but is more industrial oriented, so for hobby or research it is not the best choice. <P> <HR> <A HREF="Wearable-HOWTO-7.html">Next</A> <A HREF="Wearable-HOWTO-5.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="Wearable-HOWTO.html#toc6">Contents</A> </BODY> </HTML>
