Zipit2 seems to be an OK little 'puter, and it dioes have WiFi and a keyboard and a similar diosplay. People run Linux on it
>From the sidelines I'm not sure how the small community around ZipIt compares with QiHardware, which has an exceptionally high IQ. Be prepared to wait quite a while for a follow-on to Ben Nanonote. There are only some casual discussions so far. There is no funding, and nobody is working on defining the project. If you can afford to buy a used Palm Pre2 it can be rooted, has a keyboard, a decent screen, yada yada yada. I have a friend who works on the libre open distro (forget which one) and he uses it as a portable SSH terminal to control various and sundry servers. There are other options where you can have a decent pocket Linux computer, with net access (if that is your use case). In my case my daily driver is an Android phone with a great sliding keyboard. These solutions do NOT meet the requirements of CopyLeft Hardware. But I can get done what I need to get done. I speak for nobody, not even myself. ;) --- Ron K. Jeffries On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 16:27, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 23:44:12 +0400 (MSD), kyak wrote: > >> netsurf is already ported and its SDL interface is almost not usable >> without the mouse. keymouse somehow addresses this issue, but this is >> still no good. gdk-pixbuf interface of netsurf could be more usable >> without the mouse, but it's slow like hell. >> >> the only working "graphical" browsers now are w3m (-img) and links >> (-g), both ported btw. >> >> On Fri, 19 Aug 2011, Vasily Khoruzhick wrote: >> >> On Monday 25 July 2011 09:14:49 [email protected] wrote: >>> >>>> Hello everyone, >>>> >>>> I am extremely interested in your organisation. In particular, I think >>>> you have a veritable masterpiece in the Nanonote line. If I may say so, >>>> I think I have found the "ukulele" of computers- it is small, >>>> marvellously capable and hard to put down, just like a uke. However, >>>> there are many improvements to be made, I am sure you get that a lot. >>>> I am interested in learning to be almost entirely self-sufficient in >>>> terms of understanding the inner workings of a system so I can take >>>> full >>>> advantage of the famous 4 Freedoms. >>>> Urgent issues I would like addressed in the second Nanonote are: >>>> change of keyboard layout. I am guessing we have more than one mother >>>> tongue for people hacking on the NN. Qwerty can't possibly serve all of >>>> them equally well. qwerty... was cool about 100 years ago...not so much >>>> now, especially since we have the design freedom to think for >>>> ourselves. >>>> maybe a vote or compromise can be reached...perhaps we should optimise >>>> it for thumb-typing... >>>> >>>> need of a browser. I don't need to say much here, I'm not looking for >>>> FireFox4 here, just something light and graphical (Minimo, Dillo, etc.) >>>> >>> >>> Take a look on netsurf >>> (http://www.netsurf-browser.**org/<http://www.netsurf-browser.org/>). >>> I tried it on Zipit >>> Z2 (it's pretty similar to nanonote, just pxa270-based and has wifi) and >>> it >>> looks pretty good (see http://anarsoul.blogspot.com/** >>> 2011/04/netsurf-on-zipit-<http://anarsoul.blogspot.com/2011/04/netsurf-on-zipit-> >>> z2.html). Maybe someone want to make port for nanonote? :) >>> >> > Considering that the Zipit is more hardware for the money with almost 2x > the cpu power and wifi, do you think it's worth getting one to hold me over > until the new nanonote comes out? What OS do you run on the Zipit? Have you > been locked into a contract? It has baffled me how netsurf is so broken on > Nanonote, it took me by surprise because I used to run Firefox BonEcho on my > HP Jornada with same RAM and a 206 mhz ARM chip. However, I think that's the > way things are, at least for now. > > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Qi Hardware Discussion List > Mail to list (members only): > [email protected]**hardware.com<[email protected]> > Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.** > com/mailman/listinfo/**discussion<http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion> >
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