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On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 17:40 +0000, Neil Williams wrote: > 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? > :-) > try http://bluez.sourceforge.net/contrib/HOWTO-PAN have this working on gentoo 64 and suse > GPE is the Gnome-like desktop for > Fhttp://bluez.sourceforge.net/contrib/HOWTO-PANamiliar, 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. > -- Darren Ward <tecknow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html