[jornada] Re: Ubuntu, some people interested in ARM/handhelds

Kristoffer Ericson <kristoffer_e1 <at> hotmail.com> writes:

>
> Greetings,
>
> Thought I would give a quick piece of my mind on the subject.
> I basicly agree with Adam in which direction the linux pda's should go.
>
> Despite what you run on your pda all users have the same requirements, they
> want usability and speed. Both of which is better satisfied with an
> Openembedded/familiar approach rather than porting a large scale
> distribution. I would hope that the general community would work to improve
> Openembedded rather than setting up specific distro based branches that most
> often die out within a year or so.
>
> My vision for linux handhelds is a limited set of programs that are small,
> quick and do their job well.
>
> Best wishes
> Kristoffer
> www.jlime.com

Ah, a similar philosophy to how the Palm OS attained its early dominance in the
PDA market.

That's just it though, I am a long time Palm OS user and I still prefer to keep
using my Palm for my PDA needs. To me, my Jornada 728 running Linux is a pocket
workstation. Of course it doesn't have the power to run a full desktop distro,
and I have no intention of making it do so. It just has to behave somewhere in
the middle of PDA and Desktop. There are quite a few people who want to use
their Jornadas in this way and not as a PDA. 720degrees aims to fill that
niche.

I do agree totally with your stand on OpenEmbedded, for the purposes of building
a Linux PDA, and I look forward to seeing JLime for the 720 released. But for
me, I don't need a second PDA, I need a subnotebook for when I'm too lazy to lug
around my Powerbook. :)

Our distros are aimed differently but I am more than happy to help solve common
issues that affect us both.
Received on Wed Apr 19 2006 - 14:57:44 EDT