-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Paul M wrote: > 2008/9/10 martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Mobile(some sort of program which has no alternative on Windows Mobile >> etc)? I mean is there anything particular what Angstrom is capable of
> loads of free programs especially network utilities: I wanted to echo this point. An Angstrom PDA is nearly as capable, software-wise, as a full Linux desktop. I wrote a complete application using Python, glade, and pygtk for the GUI and backend code, and I used MySQL to store and retrieve data. If you wanted to do the same thing in Windows mobile, I shudder to think how many pieces of third-party software you'd need to buy on your development machine and on the PDA. You may not be a developer, but the same things that make it easy for developers to write applications that run on Angstrom also make it easy for people to port desktop Linux applications to Angstrom. Whether or not all the applications you may want are included in the stable Angstrom release is another question entirely, of course. Given that open source projects tend to focus on what scratches the contributors' itches, the best way to get your killer app into Angstrom is to try the build process to see if it's already available (see http://blog.leggewie.org/?p=39 which works better and more easily than the official build guide). If it isn't, ask what it takes to make it available. That may seem daunting at first, but imagine how successful you'd be if you asked Microsoft to add a free program to Windows mobile, just for you :) Having said all that, are "regular users" ready for an Angstrom PDA? I'm not sure. My own experience focuses on the hx4700, and there were quirks I needed to work around, many of which I figured out myself, and some of which I learned about on this list. I also submitted a fix for the infamous timezone bug, but it didn't seem to work for European users. A "regular user" would have probably given up when things didn't work. - -- Bob Igo StormLogic -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIyXoK65uO8u5kvxoRAnoeAJ9BO3QKJSj36oCwZFL5Xwygz50SGgCZAbiz uhiu0D0ZcIU6L6+PO2mBVBw= =Gp0L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users
