Linux On Your Tablet PC

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday January 2, 2005 @05:00AM from the stepping-in-the-right-direction dept.

tyman writes "Michael Rolig has created a Debian-based linux package for your Tablet PC. The support for various tablet features is limited by the features on the tablet Rolig owns, such as the "half-working" pen button features. One important missing feature is the screen-swivel buttons common with most tablets. However this is a good start for the development of linux for Tablet PCs."

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Open-source tablets... by tygerstripes · 2005-01-02 05:04 · Score: 3, Funny

Soon we shall challenge M$ AND Glaxo-Smith-Kline! Yes!

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1. Re:Open-source tablets... by utopianfiat · 2005-01-02 06:01 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  The Linux Philosophy:
  if it moves, try loading linux on it.
  
  So far I've had luck loading linux on an XBOX, PS2, and GCN, so with a good ./ article on tablet pcs, I'm sure some ubercoder will come across and make the swivel a peice of crumb cake.
  
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2. Re:Open-source tablets... by jusdisgi · 2005-01-02 07:45 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  It's almost as if no matter what Microsoft comes out with Linux is managed to be placed onto it. Great huh?
  Almost? Fuck! What did we miss?
  
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In other news... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-01-02 05:08 · Score: 4, Funny

I put linux in my car. It can't steer, break, or play the radio yet, but it can make the windows go down (not up).
1. Re:In other news... by jusdisgi · 2005-01-02 14:24 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  As you might have learned from Monty Python, simple denial will not suffice for an argument.
  
  Right. But he wasn't making an argument. He was replying to me, and I had already made a logical and forthright one. He was just telling me to calm down because this guy was an idiot. I had already explained why he was an idiot.
  
  Anyway, it doesn't much matter now. The post we're all talking about is labelled "funny," which I find reasonable. When I posted my reply, it wasn't even to that post, but one that complained about a (justified) flamebait rating and said the [joke|flamebait] had a "valid point." At the point when I replied to him, the post he had complained about was labelled "insightful."
  
  Nice dropped context. Does it make a lot of sense on a Tablet PC, compared to Windows XP Tablet PC Edition? No? Then your comments are irrelevant blather.
  
  Look, the context was dropped a long time ago, when we started talking about a car. And we're looking at pretty seriously prerelease stuff here. Nobody claimed this particular setup was ready for primetime.
  
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But... by Faust7 · 2005-01-02 05:11 · Score: 3, Funny

Will I be able to recompile my kernel with a stylus? ;)

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Rule #1 about Linux on Tablet PC by Anonymous Coward · 2005-01-02 05:18 · Score: 2, Funny

Do NOT talk about Linux on Tablet PC
Re:Ruin perfectly good hardware with crapy linux G by Anonymous Coward · 2005-01-02 06:08 · Score: 1, Funny

Putting Linux on your tablet is a bit like putting Linux on your powerbook....or putting Linux on your iPaq
In Soviet Korea, linux puts tablet PC on Soylent Green!
Re:Excellent! by jusdisgi · 2005-01-02 08:37 · Score: 2, Funny

*I can't see why you'd want to run Linux on a Tablet PC *

because you can configure it to be much lighter?

Bullshit. I just installed debian on my TC1000, and it weighed exactly the same as it did when I had XP on it.

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