Linux on an Ipaq is REALLY quit simple.
Just go to www.handhelds.org and try familiar for your self.
its a thing of 1 hour to get this up and running including support for wavelan (in fact thats just configured out of the box)
more anoying is that your ipaq with linux has an overaluptime of around 2.5 hours running and something like 8 hours supended.... after this everything thats not in flash (the default linux installation and everything that you pack in the 1.5 mb space left over in flash) is gone... so if you forget to plug in your ipaq soon enough ....
yo
karl