[sclug] GNU on handhelds

[Graham R. Balharrie]

Qtopia - Never really played with it.  Seen the Zaurus tho.. nice kit
Opie - Played with this... VERY nice looking, features pretty good...
some unfinished bits tho :S
GPE - Very comprehensive from what I can see... but not as "pretty"

I'd say the coin flip is opie/gpe... or try both?! I Did!

Familiar is defiantly a very simple option, and for the hardware you are
using it is a VERY good starting point.   Theres a page on the Familiar
site that lets you customize what you download to suit your hardware.

I haven't had any joy with the emails - I have a TDK Systems BluePAQ,
which is a Bluetooth jacket for the iPAQ, but with a CF slot.   I then
have a D-Link 660W Wifi Card.   The wifi is supported, but as the jacket
is not, the wifi doesn't work so I don't have any networking!

Not tried the FVS.. cos my pda doesn't have it! *sulks*

-----Original Message-----
From: sclug-bounces at sclug.org.uk [mailto:sclug-bounces at sclug.org.uk] On
Behalf Of erik.chakravarty at accenture.com
Sent: 18 May 2004 09:54
To: sclug at sclug.org.uk
Subject: RE: [sclug] GNU on handhelds

I have been looking much at handhelds.org... I was just comparing some
of the application environments

Qtopia - Commercial, but they have released their source code under GPL.
Sharp uses this on their Zaurus line
OPIE - Fork of Qtopia, doesn't seem quite as comprehensive or bugless
GPE - this looks pretty good actually

I think it'll be a coin flip 'twixt Qt and GPE what do you think?

I've read that to install these environments and for hardware support,
Familiar Linux is the best option... would you recommend this? Or should
I just build my own environment up from scratch using Debian.

One of my main concerns though - is synchronising emails and whatnot
between Evolution on my laptop and whatever mail client I go with. Do
you have something like this working?

There's also a project called FVS (Fingerprint Verification System).
Hoping for somebody to plug this into some userspace daemon (PAM?) for
biometric authentication soooon.....



-----Original Message-----
From: sclug-bounces at sclug.org.uk [mailto:sclug-bounces at sclug.org.uk] On
Behalf Of Graham R. Balharrie
Sent: 17 May 2004 23:02
To: sclug at sclug.org.uk
Subject: RE: [sclug] GNU on handhelds


Hey Erik.
 
I have an iPAQ 3850 here, slightly older than yours... yea, but I've
installed Linux on it.
Really nice to play with actually.
 
I would suggest going on http://www.handhelds.org   there is a great
wiki there.
If you have any other issues, I would be happy to try and help as much
as I can, as I am interested in Linux Handhelds too!

Graham
 
-----Original Message-----
From: sclug-bounces at sclug.org.uk [mailto:sclug-bounces at sclug.org.uk] On
Behalf Of erik.chakravarty at accenture.com
Sent: 17 May 2004 17:45
To: sclug at sclug.org.uk
Subject: [sclug] GNU on handhelds
 
Hey folks
 
I've just bought an iPAQ 5450 with the intention of installing Linux
 
I've done all the appropriate background reading - seem to be some very
good howtos on this stuff
 
any one had any experience converting a Windows CE device to Linux?
 
Cheers  
 
 
 
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