On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:18:22AM +0100, Charlie Stross wrote:
>
> While you're on the subject ...
>
> In my capacity as a freelance open source journalist, I write a shedload
In an attempt to keep open source journalism rooted in facts, here are a
couple of comments :-)
>
> Back in 1993 I made the mistake of buying an Apple Newton. Not just
[...]
>
> Another bunch of guys learned the same lesson a year or two ahead of me,
[...]
> They nearly ran out of money, were acquired by 3Com, and that's how
> Palm Computing's Pilot came to market.
The Palm Pilot was originally a US Robotics product (not sure of the heritage
before then, but afaik came from their internal engineering staff as a
blue-sky project). 3com bought USR in 1997 with the then-largest corporate
takeover in history (for the technology market at least).
> GTK+, the graphics library underpinning the GNOME desktop), KPilot
> (the KDE pilot app -- from http://www.slac.com/pilone/kpilot_home/),
> and the GNOME pilot tools (from http://www.gnome.org:65348/gnome-pilot/).
That should be http://www.gnome.org/gnome-pilot (even if it redirects to
http://canvas.gnome.org:65348/gnome-pilot currently)
> (from http://pda.tucows.com/palm/preview/34597.html), or use the Pyrite
> translators (http://pyrite.linuxave.net/dtk/dtk.html). You can read
http://www.pyrite.org
> SUBTITLE: Who needs laptops?
>
> A PDA like a Palm Pilot isn't a suitable substitute for a laptop. For
> one thing, it doesn't run Linux. (Clue: that was a joke.) For another
And not true either :-) See the ucLinux port at http://www.uclinux.org ...
>
> Oh, and there are reports that it's possible to load and run Linux
> on the Compaq iPaq PDA -- although it isn't sold with Linux as its
> operating system, and you are out on a limb if you do this.
http://www.handhelds.org
- Dick
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