-----Original Message-----
From: Klaus Weidner [mailto:kw@w-m-p.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 3:59 PM
To: Tony Godshall
Cc: debian-handheld@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Gigabyte-class SD [or MMC or MMCplus] cards
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:24:03PM -0800, Tony Godshall wrote:
You mean it's not really useful as an organizer when running
even the innovative pocketworkstation.com user interface?
That interface turns it into a miniature Debian system, but I haven't
found any tools that make it useful for PIM tasks, such as address book
and calendar, and syncing with a desktop machine. The Qtopia/Opie PIM
tools apparently don't work in the X11 environment unless you recompile
them yourself, and GPE was still mostly useless last time I checked
(which was a couple of months ago).
I also found GPE mostly useless, at least for the PIM tasks. Overall I
really liked GPE, it just seemed a little rough around the edges. This
was also a couple of months back... One possibility is setting up a
dual boot environment. Something pretty close to the original Sharp ROM
image for PDA tasks and something more like pocket Debian for
experimenting and more workstation oriented tasks. But currently I am
just going to see if Open Embedded, www.openembedded.org, keeps me happy
on both fronts.
But maybe things have improved since then - if anyone can recommend
specific Debian packages please do so.
But before I order I just want to be clear on this... if I
get SD, I won't be able to use it if I upgrade my kernel
past whatever Sharp gives me (can I run pocketworkstation
and Opie and GPE with Sharp's kernel)?
pocketworkstation works with the Sharp kernel, don't know about the
others.
You can run Opie and / or GPE with the OpenZaurus / OpenEmbedded kernel
which either is the Sharp kernel or (what I believe to be the case) uses
the Sharp SD/MMC driver module. There was some discussion, probably on
a more Zaurus centric list, of somebody writing an MMC only driver
module since avoiding the whole SD issue would allow it to be open
sourced. I don't know if anything happened with that.