According to Brown, Aaron F, > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Klaus Weidner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 3:59 PM > >To: Tony Godshall > >Cc: [email protected] > >Subject: Re: Gigabyte-class SD [or MMC or MMCplus] cards > > > >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). > > I also found GPE mostly useless, at least for the PIM tasks. Overall I > really liked GPE, it just seemed a little rough around the edges. This > was also a couple of months back... One possibility is setting up a > dual boot environment. Something pretty close to the original Sharp ROM > image for PDA tasks and something more like pocket Debian for > experimenting and more workstation oriented tasks. But currently I am > just going to see if Open Embedded, www.openembedded.org, keeps me happy > on both fronts. > > > > >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. > > You can run Opie and / or GPE with the OpenZaurus / OpenEmbedded kernel > which either is the Sharp kernel or (what I believe to be the case) uses > the Sharp SD/MMC driver module. There was some discussion, probably on > a more Zaurus centric list, of somebody writing an MMC only driver > module since avoiding the whole SD issue would allow it to be open > sourced. I don't know if anything happened with that.
Ah, so really no kernels past Sharp's? Nobody running e.g. 2.6.x? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
