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Linux On Your Tablet PC
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."
Linux for servers, and now on the tablet. At some point, it should find its way on the desktop...
Well, can you write "make" with a stylus?
I'd be more worried about sending things like ctrl-c to programs. Or worse, using emacs.
I never really saw any reason to own a Tablet PC, what does it have over a labtop?
It's kind of harder to haul test tubes, microscopes, petri dishes and centrifuges?
"Half-working" is the general state of Linux on laptops. Sad but true. I've tried Fedora on my Dell Inspiron, and getting wireless and ACPI to work was such a pain, I blew it off in the middle and put WinXP on it.
And tablets ain't ever going to work with Linux, because in order for them to work two things have to be in place: good handwriting recognition and applications understanding some kind of common protocol to input ink. Neither of these things is realistic under Linux. The former because of patents. The latter is because Linux developers can't implement frikkin' cut&paste.