Steven Rosario (snickersmd) wrote:
>Kristoffer Ericson <kristoffer_e1 <at> hotmail.com> writes:
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>>Greetings,
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>My vision for linux handhelds is a limited set of programs that are small,
>>quick and do their job well.
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>>Best wishes
>>Kristoffer
>>www.jlime.com
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>Ah, a similar philosophy to how the Palm OS attained its early dominance in the
>PDA market.
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>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
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Do you have a flashboard in it? I'd say a Jornada 728 would be perfect
if it could actually be suspended! A Jornada 720 isn't quite so good
given its only got 32mb of RAM.
>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.
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I have to agree that my intention is for a pocket workstation not an
overblown personal organiser. My first PDA was a Psion Series 5 and I
have to admit I've always admired their philosophy of implementing a
light weight word processor, spreadsheet, simple database etc. I'm still
yet to such an elegant implementation of such apps on another PDA. What
impresses me even more is that Psion crammed all of that into 8mb of
ROM in the Series 5 and even less on the Series 3a.
Moving onto the present day and I think that web browser, IM client, pdf
viewer and ssh client have to be added to that list.
From what i've seen of Debian and of Familiar (sorry haven't tried
Jlime yet), Familiar provides a nice looking GUI to do all of this but
often lacks serious apps while Debian tends to provide full blown
desktop applications but is limited to window managers which aren't
entirely suitable for a PDA. Also many applications don't fit properly
on a Jornada's screen. What I feel we need is either completely custom
PDA applications to do everyday tasks (some of which exist some don't)
or adaptations of desktop applications (like minimo).
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