Re: Debian on handhelds status
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 08:29:14PM -0800, Tony Godshall wrote:
> Is anyone up on the status of Debian on handhelds? It
> would be nice if someone could post a quick summary of
> which projects are moving forward, if any, and which
> ones have pretty much stagnated. URLs to active projects
> which have a working Debian on PDA would be particularly
> useful (google searches are frustrating because there's a
> lot of stagnant and obsolete stuff out there).
The pocketworkstation project is in a stagnant-but-mostly-working stage:
Main page:
http://pocketworkstation.org
Installation hints:
http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?PocketWorkstation
I haven't had time to work on it (I haven't even used my Zaurus in
months, and am thinking about giving up on organizers and using my cell
phone for PIM tasks), but from comments I hear the release does work for
Zaurus users, and you can use "apt-get" to get updated or additional
software with it.
I've heard recent encouraging reports from someone running it on an iPAQ,
he said he was planning to add instructions to the Wiki based on his
experiences.
> Last time I tried to put Debian on my handheld (IPAQ with
> CF sleeve and 5GB drive) I was not able to locate a
> reasonably straightforward way to do it (the one at
> helixcode had been removed) so I had to make do with
> familiar as the host OS and real debian only in a
> debootstrap. Pocketworkstation was supposed to work but
> the instructions were so Zaurus-specific I couldn't get
> it to work.
I agree that it's a lot of work to get it running, and definitely
something for people who like to fiddle with things to get them working
rather than end users.
-Klaus
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