Re: familiar on something other than iPAQ?

Compaq isnt selling iPAQs running Linux because there is no market for
them to do it. The sell them with WinCE on them because that is what
the majority of people want at the moment. Instead of launching a
protest against Compaq maybe you should help out and code up some apps
that will make people be able to use Linux on the ipaq as they use
wince.

                                                Gareth

On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 04:35:20PM -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> Is anyone looking into familiar on something other than the iPAQ?
>
> I really like the choice of GTK+, Python and ssh a lot, but until
> Compaq is willing to sell an iPAQ without any profit going to
> microsoft, I'm not even going to consider buying one, and I'm
> recommending to everyone I know (and some I don't :) that they not buy
> an iPAQ either, funded port or not. It's just _wrong_ for MS to get
> profit from PDA's that will only be run with Linux.
>
> Maybe familiar will be ported to the VR3, Yopy and/or something else?
> I heard Yopy is going GTK+ eventually - are they planning to sell with
> Familiar preinstalled?
>
> I think it'd be great if Familiar could become the linux pda standard
> - as it is, there's a lot of fragmentation in the linux pda market due
> to gui issues.
>
> TIA.
>
> --
> Dan Stromberg UCI/NACS/DCS

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Gareth J. Greenaway
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