intending to buy a n 770

2007-07-24 Thread fully_associative-maemo
Hi, This is my first post on this list. I hope I won't be out of topic. Then, maybe the nokia 770 is the thing I need : It is between a pda and a tablet. It has a lage screen, a touch screen... The purpose I would like to use it for is mainly taking notes. Also, it avoids me of using a

Re: intending to buy a n 770

2007-07-24 Thread Mike Lococo
This is my first post on this list. I hope I won't be out of topic. Then, maybe the nokia 770 is the thing I need : It is between a pda and a tablet. It has a lage screen, a touch screen... The purpose I would like to use it for is mainly taking notes. Also, it avoids me of using a

Re: intending to buy a n 770

2007-07-24 Thread fully_associative-maemo
--- Mike Lococo [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : This is my first post on this list. I hope I won't be out of topic. Then, maybe the nokia 770 is the thing I need : It is between a pda and a tablet. It has a lage screen, a touch screen... The purpose I would like to use it for

Re: intending to buy a n 770

2007-07-24 Thread Paul Klapperich
On 7/24/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, is the dedicated OS a unix-like one, or it just has a linux kernel but could not be said to be a unix-like OS? Can I have a terminal such as xterm? Is there a way to put unix tools on it? alt. Are usual unix tools already available

Re: intending to buy a n 770

2007-07-24 Thread fully_associative-maemo
--- Piotr Zagorowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hi, Sorry for being straightforward, but have you done *any* research for device you intended to buy? Don't be sorry :) I've done some. But the level of answered I obtained was half/half. It is easy to know it is linux based (even from

Re [answered]: intending to buy a n 770

2007-07-24 Thread fully_associative-maemo
--- Paul Klapperich [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : On 7/24/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, is the dedicated OS a unix-like one, or it just has a linux kernel but could not be said to be a unix-like OS? Can I have a terminal such as xterm? Is there a way to put

Re: intending to buy a n 770

2007-07-24 Thread Piotr Zagorowski
Hi, As I suggested, you can probably start with list archive, this is what I did before I bought my N800. There are also some nice presentations on YouTube. I think this is Nokia who mainly cares about basic linux distro, being more exact, there is maemo community supported by Nokia (someone