Re: Re: [iPAQ] Familiar v0.4 Released

> Sender: familiar-admin@handhelds.org
> From: Richard Cohen <richard@vmlinuz.org>
> Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 15:44:17 +0100 (BST)
> To: Alexander Guy <a7r@andern.org>
> Cc: <familiar@handhelds.org>, <ipaq@handhelds.org>
> Subject: [Familiar] 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...

The hack version is still there, if you start the server with the right
command line arguments. But it presents a number of problems.

Keith and I want to demo this working properly at Usenix (last week of
June). Stay tuned.

                                - Jim

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Jim Gettys
Technology and Corporate Development
Compaq Computer Corporation
jg@pa.dec.com