Re: Another go at Familiar
"Pablo Manuel Rizzo" <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 05:25, Fafler <[email protected]> wrote: > A few years ago i tried Familiar 0.8.4 on a h3900 with little success. Too > bad really, because i really like the idea of running Linux on a handheld > device. > Anyway, a couple of weeks ago i got a dirt cheap h2200, and it works a lot > better. Sound and SD works, it can boot from CF, so i doesn't have to > reflash the device every time i want to try something different > (transferring images via serial cable at 1150000 bps was a pain in..., > having to learn how to cut and paste in CE each time i reboot is a bit less > annoing), i can put the CF card in a card reader if i want to access the > entire filesystem from my PC and most of all / is 1 gb vs. the 32 mb in the > h3900. > > But there are still some problems and limitations: > > With Opie i can't receive files via bluetooth. It seems to be a known bug, > but are there any solution for it? > > The cradle doesn't have a serial port. I have a spare cradle for my h3900. > Can i gut it and put it inside the h2200 cradle? > > The SD card works, but only if the card is formatted with the ext2 > filesystem. No luck with fat. > > There seem to be a lot of interesting software to try out on my new large > root file system, but most of it is for Familiar 0.8.2 or even earlier > versions. Can i add the sources to my ipkg system and expect it to work? > > If the above doesn' t work, can i install a complete build system on the > ipaq and build the software locally? How? > > And finally. Is Familiar 0.8.4 going to be the last version ever released? > I really appreciate the effort you guys put into it and i would like to see > another release. > You should try Angstrom http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/ Regards -- Pablo Manuel Rizzo ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Aunque supiera que el mundo se acabará mañana, Igual plantaría mi manzano. -- Martin Luther King -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ The Familiar Linux Distribution Familiar mailing list [email protected] https://handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/familiar irc://irc.freenode.net #familiar