According to Klaus Weidner, > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:24:03PM -0800, Tony Godshall wrote: > > You mean it's not really useful as an organizer when running > > even the innovative pocketworkstation.com user interface? > > That interface turns it into a miniature Debian system, but I haven't > found any tools that make it useful for PIM tasks, such as address book > and calendar, and syncing with a desktop machine. The Qtopia/Opie PIM > tools apparently don't work in the X11 environment unless you recompile > them yourself, and GPE was still mostly useless last time I checked > (which was a couple of months ago). > > But maybe things have improved since then - if anyone can recommend > specific Debian packages please do so. > > > But before I order I just want to be clear on this... if I > > get SD, I won't be able to use it if I upgrade my kernel > > past whatever Sharp gives me (can I run pocketworkstation > > and Opie and GPE with Sharp's kernel)? > > pocketworkstation works with the Sharp kernel, don't know about the > others. > > > I can't seem to find MMC at 2GB, so to get that cap. I'd > > have to go SD. Kingston also mentions MMCplus but nobody > > seems to sell that. It's supposed to be faster than MMC, > > bus then again so is SD. > > Don't count on anything being faster than plain MMC, as far as I know all > the fancier modes require special driver support to work, and you don't > see any improvement with the stock driver.
Thanks Klaus! I guess I'll stick with the Sharp kernel then till I can afford a better Z and bite the bullet for the 2G SD with the hopes that I'll be able to take it with me to the next device in a year or two. That way I can install pocketworkstation and ten hours or so of ogg or mp3. Maybe I'll invest some time porting the apps I like to the small screen. I don't really need that many real pda apps, and the apps I used to really want don't seem to exist yet (a plaintext quick-search index card thing like InfoSelect was before it became a tree-structured database monster back when I used to run it on my on-in-two-seconds Windows-3.1+ -in-ROM HP Omnibook-300 back in the day. What do you recommend for something like that? Mono/dot-GNU? (snicker. snicker? hmmm. They want me to learn C# for work...) Tony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
