Re: [REQUEST 2] Simple answers re usability of iPaq Linux

On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Theodore E Poe Jr. did have cause to say:

> Simple question #0 before I flash away Windows CE on my iPaq: do people
> find a Linux iPaq useful as a PIM? I know that there is Mingle, but is
> there a convenient set of apps for tasks, calendar and contacts? I see
> that there is QPE, without an email client...

Check the Ipaq list archives for a couple page summary of the various uses
and flavors of Linux on the ipaq that I posted. Subject was "[iPAQ] To
Ipaq or not to Ipaq"

> Simple question #4: with my 32 mb iPaq, how much free space is there to
> work with using task-familiar-complete? I would plan to keep a CF card
> for /usr/local, however, I'd need room for basic things if I needed to
> switch to a modem.
>

(Other questions cut, either cuz its in the prev message or because I have
no clue ;) ..)

As far as this, do you have 32M -ram- or 32M -flash-? (Most 3600 units are
16M Flsah, 32M ram). Under linux, you have basically 3 places to do
things/store things:

Flash - 16M on most units, mounted as / .. Kept on reboot.
Ramdisk - half of ram by default (autosizes up or down as needed) mounted
as /mnt/ramfs, with links from /tmp /var and so forth. Lost on reboot.
Ram - whatever ramdisk isn't using for file storage. Used as, well,
ram. ;)

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