Yet again, wish I was here earlier. My habits are different than last year.
Let's start from the top.
Linux is not what I would call a modern system, as CE is technically newer.
But Linux is updated *ridiculously* frequently. It gets to the point where I have the newest system...for a week.
But essentially, that is one of the causes for many
developers for the platform. And as all of us have painfully learned through the H/PC experience, it is the developers who make or break the platform when the effects of time kick in. I don't want to bother finding out an estimate of how many applications Linux has, let alone how many are being actively developed right now. It is a developer's platform.
Because of this, new devices are supported, new protocols are supported, and we can connect to wifi access points in schools.
I like it simply because of the control it gives me, and it allows my 720 to be what I wanted it to be, a full-fledged laptop. Just smaller, and without usb.
Although, let me beat down some comments about Linux now.
Chazco:
First of all, it is
not (at all
) necessarily faster. Sure, configure it right, and it will blaze. But unlike CE, which uses little over 2mb of ram with a gui, Linux starts out just under 10 on a good configuration. Now, if I made my distribution like Jlimes, it might be well under that. But in my mind, it ruins the point. The reason for going to Linux is to gain features and useability, not to cripple it.
(No offense
)
Secondly, Jlime does
not have instant on. It is simply turning off the screen, and lowering the processor frequency. It is equivalent to a normal laptop suspend, and we all know that those are pointless. Battery life is limited to maybe a couple of days, but really about one. Full suspend would allow the handheld to be on suspend for weeks, and with a quick recovery. Instant on.
Also, how is konqueror browsing? What is the speed, and what about loading large sites? Perhaps that would be a better idea to port than that crazy minimo thing.
AndiF, I would worry more about the remaining compactflash card cycles than the processor ones if I was you...
-I think that about sums it up.
EDIT: Oh, and WINE is ridiculous. Unless if you are implying using CE libraries to run CE programs
(all of which would be conviniently on the rom ready for our legal access
), then I do not see a point.
Yeah, I have thought of seeing pocket word on Linux many, many times.
That might win a bunch of people over, eh? Now I'm starting to talk like those devil BSD people...
EDIT2: So close to 1337 posts...
Edited by ProgramSynthesiser 2005-12-30 4:20 AM