Hello Everyone, I'm writing to tell you about the Ben NanoNote open-source hackable hand held computer.
http://sharism.cc/specs/ I've had one for a week now and even though I haven't been able to get it to do much yet, it's great fun! It runs the OpenWrt version of embedded Linux, it uses Busybox for it's basic console utilities, it comes with Vi, Ash, Lua, and packages for Guile have been ported. I think it has packages for Qt and Gtk as well, but I have no what to do with those. It's dead easy to connect to your computer via ethernet over usb, and even __I__ managed to reflash it to a new version of it's software. It's under heavy development, with lot's of enthusiastic discussion. Here's the Wiki: http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Ben_NanoNote I got mine from Sharism.cc in Hong Kong for about a hundred dollars, and they FedEx-ed it to me right away. Like I said, it's under heavy development and I haven't been able to actually do much with it except get it to show date, time and a calendar, but I bet you techy SLUG people who know how to cross-compile programs will be able to port lots of useful stuff to it. - mark -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
