From: Brian D. <du...@ap...> - 2004-02-23 02:34:48
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On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Ian Colvin wrote: > By the way has anything moved forward on the Netbook front since December? > What I would really like to be able to do would be to run Lyx on my 7book > so that I would have a truly portable wordprocessing system capable of > handling my thesis. EPOC Word was unfortunately not up to footnotes and > suchlike. Is this overly ambitious given the memory and processor > limitations of the Psions? (Has anyone already done it?) I think that linux on the netBook, console mode, has matured considerably (in its kernel features and in the initrd package), although from the web statistics few people have tried it (my "openpsion" is the best approach at the moment, IMHO). I have run octave (a matlab clone) on it without trouble, compiled some c code with gcc, and run that code - which took an hour and a half, but finished o.k.. But we are lacking the key things: X windows, touch screen, compactflash, and power control (you can't turn a linbook off right now). So Lyx is not an option at the moment, too bad. Alas, anyone interested in kernel development has to proceed by trial and error at the moment. I've continued to put everything I know and can gleen off the web that might be relevant into the HOWTO. (And happy to take comments and suggestions about the HOWTO from anybody). B.D. |