>From what little I know about the technical specifications of the device, my biggest concerns are RAM and disc capacity. Some specs:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Hardware_specification http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Software http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Software_components 256M RAM and 1Gbyte mass storage -- not a lot. 256M is rather on the thin side for modern Gnome- and KDE-based applications. 1Gbyte of mass storage will be eaten up in a hurry by system support alone, and I wonder how much of that space will be considered available for users' data. There is no mention of either Gnome or KDE libs as part of the software support, so it may well be the case that neither GnomeSword nor BibleTime can be considered in the running as-is for use on this device. Hm, amend that, I see "Gnome Accessibility toolkit" and "Cairo 2D-graphics support" listed in software, so perhaps there is more possible here than I thought when first looking through the specs. Note this observation regarding software: "Any other linux software. Memory and disk space are constrained (256MB,1GB), so requiring additional libraries makes this a less attractive option." Overall, fitting anything not considered "core" to this device will be a shoe-horn operation, especially for mass storage space. Sword modules can eat a fair chunk of space in a hurry, at 2M to 5M per Bible text module. Really, it's hardly enough information to form much of an opinion. _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
