On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 12:31:18PM -0500, Christian, Andrew wrote:
> The kind of information we really need is business interest, not just
> personal. If you're working on a project or for a company where an
> officially support Linux distribution would make a real difference,
> please send me your thoughts on what you are doing and what the official
> Linux distribution should include.
I work for a company that has a number of ipaqs in use (mine is a
private one, though) and I could think of a good number of uses for a
commercial distro, especially if it can cover the current lack of PIM
applications.
more specifically, I'm currently evaluating whether an ipaq can be a
mobile authentication device. smartcards are great for "electronic
keys", but they require that every machine has a smartcard reader
installed or you carry that around, and in both cases you need software
support. pretty much every device has a serial port.
finally, once I have a sleeve and ethernet card, I'm sure that the ipaq
will make a great network debugging and analysis tool. how often had I
wished to be able to simple plug a machine into that misbehaving port
and check things out.
so in summary, I don't have a project where I could say "if you do X,
we'd but 100 ipaqs", but here and there, I'm sure that a commercial
linux distro would get bought at my company. the main issue I see is
that people wouldn't want to lose their PIM functionality, including
sync with outlook - or for the more technically adapt, the Linux
equivalent evolution.
-- http://web.lemuria.org/pubkey.html pub 1024D/D88D35A6 2001-11-14 Tom Vogt <tom@lemuria.org> Key fingerprint = 276B B7BB E4D8 FCCE DB8F F965 310B 811A D88D 35A6Received on Thu Jan 10 15:02:56 2002
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