Re: familiar on something other than iPAQ?

Nah. I code apps and protest, and I carefully choose what platforms I
code for. :)

Compaq should, at a minimum, have the option of selling with no
preloaded OS, or just enough to bootstrap a real os. It's just not
reasonable to say you're supporting linux, and then give money to
microsoft every time someone buys a PDA to use with linux.

On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 05:25:56PM -0700, Gareth J. Greenaway wrote:
> 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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Dan Stromberg                                               UCI/NACS/DCS