Hand held computers

[MrPickle]

Will ubuntu run on a hand held computer? It's running windows at the moment and is rather old (>7years).

[cta16]

Only 7 years old? My 10 year old desktop can run 8.10 just fine. Why don't you try downloading the live CD and see if it runs from there?

[sgosnell]

Handheld computers of that vintage can't handle a CD drive. I assume he has some version of PocketPC. Those almost certainly have an ARM CPU, and the OS is in ROM, which may or may not be flashable. I would be pessimistic about the possibility, but it might be possible, given the proper flashing tools, whatever they might be.

[MrPickle]

I have dug it out of my draws, it's not as old as I suspected, 6 years I think. It's a Dell Axim X5.

It has no CD Drive but it does have a memory card slot.

Some info:
Processor Intel XScale 400MHz
RAM 64MB
ROM 48MB

[egwest]

Check out this page, it might answer your question:
http://www.handhelds.org/projects/axim.html