Re: Cheap netwinder computers
Hi, I am one of the folks working on getting Debian running on these.
1. there is *NO* FPU. So yes any FPU intense program is slower. The
FPU is emulated. There is work for a better FPU emulation in the
works. It is around P75 speeds for FPU. For integer work it is roughly
a p200.
2. linux itself is rather stable on it. As updates are released, you
can grab them from Corel. The kernel is getting merged w/ the main
kernel so you can just grab the kernel source like you do for Intels and
what not. This will happen in the next few months.
X is not fully optimized yet. They have two people working on this.
One of them is a Xfree project member (he wrote the Matrox code). gcc
and gdb are not 100% yet. Good just not fully there. There are other
little sniggles. Nothing really major. Do not bet your job on one just
yet (give it two months) but for non mission critical apps you will be
fine. Any questions feel free to send them my way.
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