Re: distributions (was: Re: [iPAQ] Ipaq, Linux, Emax, EmacSpeak, Festival)

If it uses the same package managment, kernel, modules and directory
structure as familiar then its not really a different distro from familiar,
is it. For example I don't run any windowing system at all on my Debian
machine, not everything on it is from a .deb and the kernel is custom... yet
its still a Debian distribution.

Since most of the supposed distributions mentioned builds on top of familiar
or HH without replacing much of it apart from the windowing system then I
doubt that they could all be counted as different distributions, just
apps/packages that can be used with familiar to replace TinyX.

Ian.

----- Original Message -----
From: <jaap.hogenberg@nl.abnamro.com>
To: <ipaq@handhelds.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 10:02 PM
Subject: Re: distributions (was: Re: [iPAQ] Ipaq, Linux, Emax, EmacSpeak,
Festival)

>On 01-06-13 01:26:55 CEST, Goetz Bock wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 12 '01 at 23:29, M. Eng wrote:
>> I want to know wich Linux distribution for iPaQ is the best.
>> As the hh.org distribution was declared dead, there is only one:
>> familiar, and it's the best.
>
>a friend of mine favors mLinux.
>where does mLinux fail to meet your definition of linux distribution, or
>what is your reason for leaving it out of your count?
>
>rj

There's a link on the handhelds.org homepage to a article on oreilly ,
wich has a very good article about the various linux distro's for the iPAQ.

AFAIK , there is (was) the hh distro , familiar , mLinux , PocketLinux ,
QPE ,
and a QT/X based one, I believe. And NetBSD ofcourse.

The kernel , filesystem , basically all "low level" stuff, for most of
these
distro's mostly come from the handhelds/familiar people.

Jaap.

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