More On The Compaq iPAQ Linux Handheld

alee writes "Here's what everyone's been waiting to see: screenshots of the Compaq iPAQ (PocketPC) running Linux. No, you're not going to see it running a plain-jane shell -- you're going to actually see it running X! This project is a lot more mature than I expected. Here is Photos of iPAQ being opened, and running X and Screen captures of the iPAQ running X." Ummmm.... wow.

Comments

Re:Xscribble?

[LinuxBean]

Xscribble is a part CMU part SUN graffiti like inputting stuff. It seems to recognize graffiti like inputs. Get it at handhelds.org in the download apps src directory. It needs a few tweaks for i386 and it is picky about where its config files are located.

I-paq, linux, and x-copilot

[zaphod4224]

What I want to know is how long before x-copilot is ported to this thing? Just think, once it's ported, you probably won't have to give up your favorite palm apps. Even under emulation, it will probably run faster than a real palm, and with better color???

New WM?

[Mike Schiraldi]

It's cool and all that they fit X onto such a small handheld, but i don't think common X window managers will work well.. i mean, look at the real estate that the title bars take up. As Palm showed us, handhelds work better with a different kind of UI.
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How about this one?...

[Coq]

Ok, so now we make X just a little smaller and throw it on the watch that IBM put out. Then we run an X server on the watch and run X-clock.

Cool interface for graphic arts

[Consul]

The idea of drawing directly on an LCD screen would make an excellent graphic arts interface. You could have your 8.5x11 inch touch tablet screen, complete with Crusoe processor running Linux and CorelDRAW 9 or Canvas 7 (this is where a port of Illustrator to Linux would be nice). All you need to do is draw straight on the syrface to put all of your illustrations together.

Yes, I know this is somewhat offtopic, but I can't help but dream about this.