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Linux On The Dell Axim
An anonymous reader points to this interesting project to run the Familiar Linux distribution on the Dell Axim. "It includes a picture of the Axim running Linux and directions for loading Linux on the Dell Axim from the CF card. Looks like a good start to this project." It's limited for now (crashes after 15 minutes, must be loaded through the installed version of Windows), but everything starts out that way.
or are you just happy to see me?
These guys are getting too good at imitating the competition!
Relax, it was supposed to be funny.
You're new around here, aren't you?
Using the Axim as a X client on a wireless network would be kind of like having a kick ass linux remote control.
In a way, it's kind of useful from an advocacy point of view. We can truly say that we have an operating system that scales to virtually any device, large or small, and can run on virtually any processor technology. Linux runs on anything from PDAs and small embedded devices to IBM mainframes today. You can't say that about *any* of its competition.
My journal has hot
will running linux on your pocket pc really be useful?
I'm someone who didn't pay enough attention to that question a few months ago and is way sorry now, here's my story:
1. I purchase the Toshiba e740 with pocketPC 2002
for $600
2. Six months later pocketPC 2003 comes out and Toshiba declinces to make it available to e740 users.
I now have no possibility of any kind of upgrade for any of my software. I am stuck with what was available pre-2003 for the rest of the life of the device. Now if Toshiba leaks out enough information about their hardware to allow someone to port linux to it, I could eventually upgrade the software.