Re: [jornada] Some question about Linux on Jornada

On 6/9/05, Colin Sauze <cjs0_at_aber.ac.uk> wrote:
> Daniel Nastase wrote:
>
> >On 6/9/05, Raul <raul_at_hot.pl> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hi!
> >>
> >>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?)
> >>
> >>
> >I have a 32MB one and it's fine but I would like to have the 32
> >extra.... More memory is always better.
> >
> >
>
> Get one with 64meg if you can! Especially if your going to be running
> heavyweight desktop apps.
>
> >
> >
> >>2. Is it possible to run almost every aplication? (I'm interested in
> >>browser, mail, irc, jabber, some small office program, Html/PHP editor)
> >>
> >>
> >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.
> >
> >
> 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).
I wanted to setup Firefox as it has JavaScript which is needed if you
want to read webmail (at least for my ISP & gmail). I used Dillo - It
didn't impress me much. Links I use heavily as I am mostly in text
mode...
>
> 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.
I use the text-mode centericq.
>
> 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.
Very interesting. Must be checked out.
>
> >
> >
> >>3. Is there a possibility to make swap partition on CF card?
> >>
> >>
> >Didn't try that yet but I don't see why not.
> >
> >
> 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.
>
> >
> >
> >>Thanks in advance.
> >>
> >>Kind regards,
> >>Andrzej
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Daniel
> >
> >
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Received on Thu Jun 09 2005 - 21:13:14 EDT