Linux on the PK?

[J. R. Westmoreland]

Part of my personal difficulty with the Elba is its weight.
When I played with it it weighed as much as my laptop or a bit more.
But maybe your right and we may never get all of what we want in a single
box... <grin>

J. R.
 

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From: Sabahattin Gucukoglu [mailto:mail at sabahattin-gucukoglu.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 1:15 PM
To: notelinux at romuald.net.eu.org
Subject: Re: Linux on the PK?

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Hi all,

I'm not sure that, given the choice of indoctrinating the PackMate or moving
to an already-Linux-enabled note-taker like the Elba, there is much room for
question of choice.  Certainly, there is a lot of potential in making Linux
run on a more common and less obscure architecture, especially with the
impartial support or interest of FreedomScientific, but if you wanted to use
a notetaker specifically because it ran Linux and gave you everything then
moving to the Elba is IMHO substantially comparable.  It runs a StrongARM
400, uses Debian GNU/Linux, is only a little larger in both models than the
corresponding PackMate, and is paradise as far as functionality and openness
are concerned.  They will dish out the root passwords if required, and yes -
the shell is fully accessible.  About the only thing that isn't open is
their screen reader and Elloquence, both supplied as closed.  This
particular behemoth is provided by Papenmeier.  More importantly, this is
the sort of functionality we are expecting to get out of our BrailleNotes or
PackMates; there is no denying that significant work must be done!  We don't
yet know what we will lose because of lack of support from these companies,
but I only hope FreedomScientific will carry forth its curiosity, if only
for J.R.'s sake.  I'd certainly like to think that PulseData would do the
same, but so far this seems exceptionally unlikely. 
 I don't know whether, given their hardware is the best feature of the
entire sale, getting the specs is going to prove any simpler than getting
that code.  We've always known that, of course, but we've got to try and
ride this out as far as we can before concluding that only our own resources
can uncover the secrets.  Remember, we're going to get an SDK soon, that may
be the start...

Cheers,
Sabahattin
- --
Thought for the day:
    A penny saved is ridiculous.


Sabahattin Gucukoglu
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