Re: Some thoughts on a fortune
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 10:41:46AM -0600, Vince Mulhollon wrote:
[big snip]
> Back on the subject of Debian stuff, for similar reasons, I don't think
> porting emacs to a palm III is going to be a killer app. But if someone
> could port KDE to a PDA, and get kmail working usefully on the PDA, that
> might be a killer app. After all, people pay $100 a month for those little
> blackberry two way email pagers, I'm sure those same people would prefer to
> pay less for a Debian based solution with a bigger screen...
Done:
http://qpe.sourceforge.net/
> On the other hand, very few people are paying $5 to cellphone providers to
> "surf the web" on their telephones, so I'd assume a linux based wireless
> web browser would tank in the market, so there's little point in porting
> lynx to a Debian based PDA.
>
Ipaq + Linux + Ipaq's GPRS jacket
Just waiting for the latest Ipaq to get into the shops :-)
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