Re: [jornada] Some question about Linux on Jornada

Daniel Nastase wrote:

>On 6/9/05, Raul <raul_at_hot.pl> wrote:
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>>Hi!
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>>I'm going to buy Jornada and use it with linux.
>>
>>I have some questions:
>>1. How big is the difference between 32 and 64 mb of ram (J720
>>and J728)?
>>(does applications work better or not work at all with 32 mb?)
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>I have a 32MB one and it's fine but I would like to have the 32
>extra.... More memory is always better.
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>

Get one with 64meg if you can! Especially if your going to be running
heavyweight desktop apps.

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>>2. Is it possible to run almost every aplication? (I'm interested in
>>browser, mail, irc, jabber, some small office program, Html/PHP editor)
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>I didn't have an application that I couldn't run so far. I use Debian
>unstable and it has everything and it's very up to date (python2.4,
>firefox, etc).
>Yes! I use firefox. It works fine, maybe a bit slow and uses pretty
>much all the available memory (that's where the 32 extra would be
>nice) but I can use it to read the webmail if I need.
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>
If you want something a little less memory consuming and better suited
to the Jornada's screen try dillo, links (this has both text-only and
graphical versions) or minimo (mini mozilla).

For jabber/irc GAIM works pretty well, and there is a special handheld
edition for OPIE. If you don't use this version it takes a little
messing about with the settings to make it fit properly.

There's a good list of applications suitable for PDAs in the Psion Linux
wiki (The Psion netbook is very similar in spec to the Jornada 7xx) at
http://www.openpsion.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/EpocLinux.

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>>3. Is there a possibility to make swap partition on CF card?
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>Didn't try that yet but I don't see why not.
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This will work, *BUT* its a great way to get your CF card to its 100,000
rewrite cycle limit. If you can use a microdrive or PCMCIA hard disk to
do this.

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>>Thanks in advance.
>>
>>Kind regards,
>>Andrzej
>>
>>
>
>Daniel
>
>
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Received on Thu Jun 09 2005 - 08:59:21 EDT