[TriLUG] Windows CE and Linux

[Benjamin Reed]

john broome [jbroome at intrex.net] wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vestal, Roy L." <rvestal at rti.org>
> 
> > I was looking at the iPAQ simply because it's got all these hardware specs
> > with the execption of the keyboard and it comes with Windows 2002 (gasp!
> he
> > said a dirty word!) and the Pocket software.
> 
> I have seen ipaq's running linux on the web.  I'm not sure which distro, or
> how you would do it but it's out there..

There are a number of "distros", but they're all pretty much based off of
similar things.

The original one was compaq's handhelds.org distro.  Then a group started
doing a bunch of work on their distro to clean it up and make installation
a bit easier, and this became the "familiar" distro, which handhelds.org
later took back into the fold as the official ipaq distro.

Now you can also get the QT palmtop environment (what's used on the Zaurus) for
the iPAQ as well, it's just a set of packages that sit on top of the minimal
familiar install.

There is also a distro called "intimate" which is basically debian for the
iPAQ, and it plays well with familiar packages too...

-- 
Benjamin Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick (ranger at befunk.com) http://ranger.befunk.com/
...if humanoids eat chicken, then obviously they'd eat their own species.
Otherwise they'd just be picking on the chickens. -- Kryten