On Thu, Aug 23 '01 at 13:33, Theodore E Poe Jr. wrote:
> 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...
With QPE yes, with X (familiar) no
> Simple question #1: is there an email client in any of the Familiar
> ipkg's that would enable me to use a CF modem to dialup my ISP, download
> my POP3 email and read it (with the ability of saving attachments)?
no, but mutt works. barely useable with qpe terminal, unuseable with
familiar
> Simple question #2: what are the care and feeding instructions for a
> Linux iPaq? Under WinCE, I turn it on and off while using and recharge
> it every day or so. I've read somewhere that, even with power off, I
> have 8 hours between recharges or else poof.
Never tried, I've mine charged all the time and only a few hours off per
week ... but I dont have time to play with it right now anyway :-(
> Simple question #3: should I do version 0.4 immediately, else wait for
> 0.5? Anyone know an ETA for 0.5?
It dempends on how much time you have. If I did not have familiar 0.4
bootstrap with qpe on my ipaq right now, I would wait ...
> 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.
task-familiar-complete leaves about 2MB, bootstrap with qpe about 1MB.
This is all flash and you still have 16MB of ram disk to go.
This is all MHO, and I did not play with my ipaq for the last month, so
take it with a lot of salt :-)
-- Goetz Bock IT Consultant Dipl.-Inf. Univ.
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