Re: [iPAQ] Familiar v0.4 Released

On Mon, 14 May 2001, Alexander Guy wrote:

> Greetings:
> This message serves as an announcement that Familiar Linux v0.4
> has been declared stable, and is officially released. Familiar v0.4 is
> the latest production of the Familiar Project, a loosely knit team of
> developers, who's intent is to put together an advanced operating system
> for the next generation of handheld devices. Familiar Linux is presently
> available for use on Compaq's iPAQ H3600-series of color handhelds.
[snip]
> Let me know if you have any: problems, nits, comments, or bugfixes. Enjoy
> the release. Thanks,

Just two immediate things:

Is the orientation-flipping X server gone for good? I know Keith was
working on a formal X extension to do this, but is there a particular reason
why the old 'multiple screens for multiple orientations' hack has been
dumped? There are things which naturally want to run in landscape and
things which want to run in portrait - it was nice to be able to run both
without restarting the X server...

My feeling is that, although the ipkg stuff is really nice, it relies too
much on a live Internet connection. I'm at work right now, on a heavily
NISed, heavily firewalled network, and I only got an always-on 'net
connection at home last week. Maybe a little more checking to see if there
is a network available before trying to go out on it?

Oh, and the suspend-resume interaction with the screensaver is still a
little funky :-)

> Alexander

Cheers
Richard
Received on Mon May 14 2001 - 07:44:44 EDT