Author Paul Andrews comes to this conclusion:" Lindows has a slicker interface and emulates Windows so well that it repeats several of my pet Windows peeves. Xandros' user-interface has more obvious Linux legacy to it but shouldn't stymie the first-timer." These are the usual conclusions in our days, deciding whether is something worth to use or not, by having a look at the outside (here the interface). That's one of the reasons of the "success" of Microsoft operating systems. They have put a lot of work and money in their style-guides.
Linux can be used as a means to protect our environment, by using its features to save power or paper, since it doesn't require big hardware it may be used with old computers to make their life cycle longer, games may be used in environmental education and software is available to simulate ecological processes. See a detailed description of this means in the Ecology-HOWTO.
So why are other companies able to provide their drivers as Open Source? Do you think the developers of for example XFree86 were not capable to do a good job?
The CreativeCommons GetContent page contains a huge list of media. But what I am looking for is content, which fits to a Linux PDA like the SHARP Zaurus series. Are there eBooks, AudioBooks and movies, especially designed for small computers? BTW: Though there are many sites, which offer free mobile cell phone logos and ringtones, are there any logos and ringtones available under the Creative Common Licenses or the GPL?
Setting up the TuxMobil News RSS feed , which features daily news for mobile geeks using laptops, PDAs and mobile cell phones with Linux, I have also made a survey of RSS news readers, tickers and aggregators for Linux (available at the link above). The survey contains tools for Gnome , KDE, text console, HTML and your favorite X11 window manager.
There are even more Open Source - GUI builders for PDAs. You may build Graphical User Interfaces for other small or embedded computers with these tools under Linux as well as other operating systems, too.
Intel is announcing plans to release Linux drivers for the WLAN part of their centrino technology from the time beginning. Though there are no facts yet, no release date, no statement whether the drivers will be binary only or Open Source, no information which chipset generations will be supported eventually and so on. See details of the story and How to Get Linux Running on Centrino Laptops at TuxMobil. So don't miss to sign the Linux Support On Centrino Petition! More at the link above.
My favorite sience fiction books starts in a corporate fortress. Marge Piercy`s He, She and It is a brilliant story which covers ethical, philosophical, sexual and technical aspects of relations between cyborgs and humans.
I am the owner of MobiliX, which is now TuxMobil - Linux On Laptops, NoteBooks, PDAs and Mobile (Cellular) Phones. After I have been charged (see Obelix./.MobiliX case documentation), I became aware of other trademark cases in the Linux world. Actually Linux history seems to be a sequel of trademark charges. Linux itself has been under trademark charges different times. I have documented at least 15 Linux trademark cases.
PS: Though I have lost the MobiliX case in court finally, there is still my request to unregister the trademark Obelix, because it is not used in the appropriate classes. So don't give up Mandrake there is always hope.
Mobile computers e.g. laptops and notebooks without keyboard but a touchscreen and running Linux or other operating systems have been available long before Microsoft invented the so-called TabletPC specification. Not all devices fullfil this specification and therefore are often called similar e.g. WebPad, NotePad or Pen PC. Even for the operating system there are alternatives , see Linux on Tablet PCs. There you may find a survey of commercial solutions for Linux on TabletPCs as well as links to installation reports for the usual Linux distributions.
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Author Paul Andrews comes to this conclusion:" Lindows has a slicker interface and emulates Windows so well that it repeats several of my pet Windows peeves. Xandros' user-interface has more obvious Linux legacy to it but shouldn't stymie the first-timer." These are the usual conclusions in our days, deciding whether is something worth to use or not, by having a look at the outside (here the interface). That's one of the reasons of the "success" of Microsoft operating systems. They have put a lot of work and money in their style-guides.
Linux can be used as a means to protect our environment, by using its features to save power or paper, since it doesn't require big hardware it may be used with old computers to make their life cycle longer, games may be used in environmental education and software is available to simulate ecological processes. See a detailed description of this means in the Ecology-HOWTO.
So why are other companies able to provide their drivers as Open Source? Do you think the developers of for example XFree86 were not capable to do a good job?
Anyway I like Open Source drivers. BTW: Don't forget to sign the Intel Support of Centrino Under Linux Petition. See more details about Linux on Centrino laptops.
From the footprints of mobile cell phones in my Apache log files, I see that many people are using the WAP format of TuxMobil - Linux On Laptops, PDAs and Mobile Cell Phones. Also the i-mode format is used, too.
I hope to see this laptop in the Linux Laptop Installation Survey soon. Because many laptop manufacturers do not provice enough Linux support it often needs too much time before Linux installation reports become available. So if you want to buy a new laptop to install Linux on it, you are often on your own.
There are even more input devices for Linux laptops and PDAs. For example the famous Twiddler, which can be attached to the hand wrist.
The CreativeCommons GetContent page contains a huge list of media. But what I am looking for is content, which fits to a Linux PDA like the SHARP Zaurus series. Are there eBooks, AudioBooks and movies, especially designed for small computers? BTW: Though there are many sites, which offer free mobile cell phone logos and ringtones, are there any logos and ringtones available under the Creative Common Licenses or the GPL?
Setting up the TuxMobil News RSS feed , which features daily news for mobile geeks using laptops, PDAs and mobile cell phones with Linux, I have also made a survey of RSS news readers, tickers and aggregators for Linux (available at the link above). The survey contains tools for Gnome , KDE, text console, HTML and your favorite X11 window manager.
Hey, just in case you are looking for Linux on TabletPCs to get your robot running with a free OS.
Since I found it difficult to research how to upgrade and repair such electronic devices, I have setup pages with links to HOWTOs for portable music players, laptops and notebooks as well as PDAs. BTW: there is a also a selecion of Linux tools to connect to portable MP3 players.
Almost all available theft protection methods for laptops seem not to be working with Linux. So I have setup a survey of theft protection methods, which work for Linux laptops and notebooks. I hope to extend the survey to protection methods for Linux PDAs and mobile (cellular) Linux phones, too.
From my experience it's difficult to find hardware manuals and disassembly instructions, for electronics through search engines. Therefore I have collected some repair HOWTOs for laptops, for PDAs and for portable music players. BTW: There is also a Linux software for portable music players.
For my old COMPAQ Armada M700 the new Kernel brought a nice speed improvement. I have got appropriate reports from other Linux laptop users, too.
If you don't want to wait for the G5 PowerBook generation, you may have a look into these installation reports about Linux on laptops with 64bit CPU. BTW: there also many installation reports about Linux on Apple's iBooks and PowerBooks.
There are even more Open Source - GUI builders for PDAs. You may build Graphical User Interfaces for other small or embedded computers with these tools under Linux as well as other operating systems, too.
OPIE is great. It works on different PDA models (not only the Zaurus PDAs made by SHARP). Though there are different other Linux distributions for PDAs available.
I am eager to check how it will run on my next laptop. An installation report about Solaris 10 on a laptop will be available soon.
Intel is announcing plans to release Linux drivers for the WLAN part of their centrino technology from the time beginning. Though there are no facts yet, no release date, no statement whether the drivers will be binary only or Open Source, no information which chipset generations will be supported eventually and so on. See details of the story and How to Get Linux Running on Centrino Laptops at TuxMobil. So don't miss to sign the Linux Support On Centrino Petition! More at the link above.
Though these machines are fairly new on the market, there are already installation reports about Linux on the ACER Ferrari series available. As well as installation reports about Linux on other laptops and notebooks with AMD CPUs.
My favorite sience fiction books starts in a corporate fortress. Marge Piercy`s He, She and It is a brilliant story which covers ethical, philosophical, sexual and technical aspects of relations between cyborgs and humans.
I am the owner of MobiliX, which is now TuxMobil - Linux On Laptops, NoteBooks, PDAs and Mobile (Cellular) Phones. After I have been charged (see Obelix./.MobiliX case documentation), I became aware of other trademark cases in the Linux world. Actually Linux history seems to be a sequel of trademark charges. Linux itself has been under trademark charges different times. I have documented at least 15 Linux trademark cases. PS: Though I have lost the MobiliX case in court finally, there is still my request to unregister the trademark Obelix, because it is not used in the appropriate classes. So don't give up Mandrake there is always hope.
At least on the first AMD64 laptops, Linux is the operating of choice. See TuxMobil for installation reports and a survey of 64bit Linux distributions.
Mobile computers e.g. laptops and notebooks without keyboard but a touchscreen and running Linux or other operating systems have been available long before Microsoft invented the so-called TabletPC specification. Not all devices fullfil this specification and therefore are often called similar e.g. WebPad, NotePad or Pen PC. Even for the operating system there are alternatives , see Linux on Tablet PCs. There you may find a survey of commercial solutions for Linux on TabletPCs as well as links to installation reports for the usual Linux distributions.
For almost any model there is an installation report about Linux on an Apple PowerBook or iBook.
You may get an international survey of Linux Laptop and PDA resellers at TuxMobil. For example there is an entry for Xtops.DE - Linux, Laptops, PDAs, which is located in Germany but sells to France, Italy, the United Kingdom and other European countries. Xtops.DE provides an English GUI and a German or English manual for the SHARP Zaurus Linux PDAs.