[Sussex] Hello!

Dominic dominic.clay at cardinus.com
Tue Mar 25 14:58:00 UTC 2003


>Dom - if your reading I had not problem switching over to Linux on my iPAQ.
>Are you interested in switching over your iPAQ this Thursday night?  If Nik
>can get us power then it can easily be done in the evening.

Um... yep!

>If you do want to upgrade to Linux then I'll need the answers to the
>following questions:

>  1). Which iPAQ do you have? (e.g. mine is the 3600 model)
iPAQ 3970 - could be a prob???

>  2). Which GUI version do you want?
I get GUI too? ;)

>There are three options:
>A). Basic Familiar Bootstrap: The basic requirements for getting the
>handheld booting, and on the network. Includes ppp,
pcmcia,ethernet,wireless, and ssh.
>B). X/GPE Bootstrap Image: Bootstrap plus X/GPE, with user logins.
>C). Opie Bootstrap  Image: A Embedded QT based distro.

>I opted for Opie.  Having tried them both I felt that GPE being X based a
little
>messy in the display (and the pointer being a waist of screen space when
using
>a stylus).  Opie looks much cleaner as you can see here [1]
>[1]: http://opie.handhelds.org/screenshots/gallery/

Yep, I want mine to look just like that :)

Dominic





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