Re: Familiar on the Desktop?

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 08:04:40PM +0930, Jayson Hay wrote:
:Hello All,
:
:I am interested in Familiar and would like to know if it can be run on my
:desktop Linux machine while I dont have an iPAQ.
:On some website I noticed that msql, perl, gtk etc had been reported to run
:on familiar and that is why I am interested in it.
:
:I thank you in advance for any help you can offer.

You should probably be looking at a "normal" GNU/Linux distribution
rather than Familiar.

Familiar is *very* stripped down to run in the small embeded
environment of a handheld PC, runing on an ARM chip. Familiar is
based on the Debian distribution (my personal favorite), there's a port
for ARM, so even if your desktop is running on this hard ware you can
use it. If you have a "normal" Intel or AMD system you absolutely
cannot run Familiar, but you can run any other flavor of GNU/Linux you
want.

-Jon
Received on Wed Jul 18 06:18:33 2001