One thing I just caught about the Intimate project, on their homepage, is that the base image is currently around ~140MB (!). I don't know about you, but that's about my total storage capacity, and I thought I was doing well. So, unless you have a microdrive or a really huge SD/CF card, you may have to go with Familiar. I'm not aware whether intimate can be cut down in size or not.
Either way, I think it would be fun to have Linux on my PDA. I look forward to the day. :-) Let us (or just me) know how you make out, if and when you take the plunge! Curtis. -----Original Message----- From: chris wallace [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 8:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: (clug-talk) (news) Qtopia chosen over Palm and Pocket PC - or , Everything you wanted to know about Linux and PDAs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ahoy! I am in the process (read: when I can find the time) of converting my iPAQ 3600 series to run linux as a personal 'spiffy' kinda project. Thus far, I've managed to back up CE just in case (god help me) I wish to run CE again some day and flashed it with a new bootloader capable of taking me to a 'root' shell. I had only really checked out the familiar project's feature-set before, so I'll definitely have to look into 'intimate' if it means I can run KDE on my iPAQ!! ;-) ...slick, really slick ;-P Chris On February 19, 2003 7:36 pm, Curtis Sloan wrote: <snip> > That being said, there are a couple of current Linux-distro offerings for > StrongARM-based PDAs (Intel's predecessor to the XScale): > Intimate: http://intimate.handhelds.org/ > Familiar: http://familiar.handhelds.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+VEflAvR8j4tXQKERAiw2AJ98oKOQwjSmx7XZOR2/vcoznGrxAQCfVfiO c8Wgco3SxDV1Xvn/FomPisQ= =8biX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
