portable pda-like Linux-OS on tablet PC-like device?

Hi!

I am considering in buying a tablet-PC-device and run Linux on it
(I've been to much in Windows in the last 2 years, have to come back
to the rooooots^^).

Since I want to replace my PalmOS PDAs with a device with big or huge
display (well, bigger as LifeDrive and even huger than HTC Advantage
X7500) I wanted to figure out, how I can determine a Linux to be ...
PDA-like:

I am looking for the device to turn on instantly - instant on without
booting it everytime.

Can You give me an advise in this? Can I do this with a common linux
or do I need a special one? Or do I have to get a real PDA-device for
the instant on feature?

Would be nice to hear from You.

CU, forcemaker

On 27 Oct, 17:34, forcemaker <forcema....TakeThisOut@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am considering in buying a tablet-PC-device and run Linux on it
> (I've been to much in Windows in the last 2 years, have to come back
> to the rooooots^^).

Well, there is the Pepper Pad, although application support is poor
and it lacks interfaces.
Then there are the Archos devices - the 430 has some PDA like features
and can act as a host to external USB devices.

Neither of them are, well err.. wonderful. But both are fun.