> > I tried the familiar v0.8.4 release feeds, perl and python gives me
> > "Illegal instruction", is there an testing or unstable branch for
> > Familiar?
>
> Uh, same here. At least python used to work on previous releases with
> familiar 0.8.2 packages.
>
> Now I've tried removing and installing the 0.8.2 packages and it doesn't
> work :!( weird...
>
Prboom broke after this too, I suspect the SDL update did it.
Setting up a cross-build environment now, building an opie-image. Next
I'll try to build Python and Perl.
> Ext3 would stress the sd card. The card sectors have a limited
> reads/writes lifetime. Ext3 journaling writes a lot of things on the same
> sectors periodically. So it's bad for sd cards and flash-based devices.
>
Ok! I'm new to embedded devices.
> > Another thing, one really should setup a swap partition, right? 64 Mb
> > ram is not much! Did a reformat of the SD and added 128 Mb swap.
>
> You can also use the opie-vmemo applet to make a swap file. Uh... It seems
> to be broken on this release. The applet doesn't appears.
I put the swap partition in /etc/fstab, seems to work...
> > It would also be nice to have some good image processing apps, where is
> > Gimp?
>
> No idea :(.
I'll try to build petitepeinture.
Does the ipaq's support screen pressure sensitivity?
Regards!
Anders
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