Re: Linux on IPAQ

From: Marc (see_at_signature.url)
Date: 06/16/05

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    AM Christophe wrote:
    > Opie, Qtopia, GPE, Pixil, Debian...
    > A lot of solutions to run Linux on most (old?) iPaq. Btw, nothing as good as
    > Pocket PC if you just want to use your iPaq like a PDA. I mean if you want
    > to sync with Windows Applications or use the PDA as a first computer (if
    > you don't have unix knowledge) you will be in trouble.
    >
    > Linux is ready to be a good embedded OS but nobody has done a good and easy
    > to use user interface so far. And when you try to convince people or ask
    > for help to design one, a few big bad-tempered doorkeepers come to you and
    > start "big trolling attacks"!
    >
    > Welcome to the 21th century.
    >

    I think Palm will eventually use a Linux based OS if/when they decided
    to implement multitasking. Maybe I'm just hoping :)

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