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For those who might be interested, I've just completed an installation of Familiar onto a HP3900 iPAQ. (Yes, Grant, the one I bought on Tottenham Court Road after Expo.) :-) http://www.dcglug.org.uk/wiki/?id=view/dist-reviews/misc/4 It's not so much a distribution review at the moment, more of a set of notes to pad out some of the areas of the existing documentation that I found difficult. I'll be bringing the iPAQ to the next meeting. See the review for details of network connectivity - I don't envisage being able to connect to other PC's at the meeting without some detailed network config work (and likely an internet connection) on those PC's but bluetooth should work. If someone wants to try it, I'd recommend a Debian box with ipmasq downloaded (but not installed) as we don't have an internet connection in Paignton. Anyone know how to share a LAN connection over bluetooth? :-) GPE is the Gnome-like desktop for Familiar, which in turn is a Debian-based (aren't they all?) GNU/Linux distribution under the GPL for the PocketPC to replace WinCE. IIRC, it's also available for the Zaurus. It runs a genuine linux kernel, it has iptables, ipv6, ssh, the apt-like ipkg and various Gtk utilities: Calendar, Contacts, Time Tracker, To-Do list, Image Gallery, Text Editor (gedit), Othello, Sokoban, Tetris, Minimo (aka embedded Mozilla browser), VLC and a calculator. I'm aiming to add some more software to handle the same kind of data as my Palm (gpe-expenses) and to provide a data update path from my palm data. It's also possible that GPE could host an embedded version of gnucash - gpe-cash. Hence why I chose GPE (which is like Gnome and based on C and Gtk) rather than the more eye-candy / KDE approach of Opie which uses C++ and Qt. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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