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Familiar Distribution for iPAQ Handhelds

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the penguin-style-ipaqs dept.

Russ Nelson writes "The Handhelds.org project has released Familiar 0.7.2, a Linux-based firmware replacement for HP iPAQ handhelds. New to this release is support for the h5400 and h5500, which have built-in wlan interfaces. Both GPE (gtk/X) and Opie (Qt) are at or past version 1.0, and we now have a Python-gtk distribution called 'pypaq'. Why waste that commute time playing Tetris when you could be hacking on Python code?"

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  1. Re:Lost Functionality by Chundra · · Score: 4, Funny

    Indeed it does! But if you're that worried about people accessing your data, I would like to recommend using a testicle print instead. That way you can usually be sure of absolute privacy, unless you're like me and wear crotchless pants with no underwear.

    Cheers!

  2. Re:Why? by Chundra · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah but you forget that once you've eaten it, you can have it again. Though it probably wouldn't look much like cake.

  3. Why Tetris and not Python by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Why waste that commute time playing Tetris when you could be hacking on Python code?

    Because I'm not a nerd.

  4. Re:Offtopic sort of, NX by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Implements image streaming algorythms to reduce the perceived latency

    Tell me more about these "algorythms"