Programming for Linux Handhelds

[Helical Cynic]

Ok, the Agenda VR3d (Developer's Edition) is out. Gotta sign up for their Developer stuff to get one, but...

At first glance the thing looks pretty neat. It boots Linux 2.4, runs X 3.9 (gonna be X 4 soon, if not already) and, when connected, you can telnet/ftp/whatever to & from it. Not bad, eh?

My question is...
Would it be worthwhile to learn how to program (and setting up a separate partition/comp to work on) on one of these things?

To be able to develop for it, you have to use a different set of C/C++ libs, so I'm wondering if this could be done easily and still be able to work on normal desktop box apps...
Oh yeah, the VR3 uses the FLTK gui toolkit. Not a major problem for me as I don't know gui stuff yet, this would give me a really good reason to learn, tho.

Thanks in advance,
BTBGuy

[Energon]

do you have a link to the site for the PDA?

[Helical Cynic]

Should be at http://www.agendacomputing.com
The Developer's Zone is here, at http://developer.agendacomputing.com/about-adp.html

A side note...
Anybody gotten the latest Linux Magazine. Article in there about UML, essentially lets you run a virtual Linux machine on a linux box. The virtual box doesn't have to have the same specs your physical box does... An ideal platform for kernel testing, emulation, testing SMP stuff on a uniproc machine, having a firewall that exists within a server, instead of being a server...
et cetera ad infinitum
I think it could be used to test the Linux VR kernel (what the Agenda VR3 uses) and maybe emulate the guts of a VR3 on an existing box...