Good reasons for switching to Familiar...

[conradcliff]

I did a quick search with Google and within this forum but didn't find what I was looking for...
I have an ipaq 2215 with a xscale 400mhz cpu and 64 megs of ram. What I'm wondering is why I should switch over to Familiar.
Will it run faster?
Is there a lot more functionality? Things I never knew I needed...
Will it allow me to use landscape mode even though it didn't come with that functionality?

2003se seems to be serving my needs quite well as it is but if there is a mountain of functionality I'm missing out on that can be found in Familiar I would really like to know. Thanks allot for your info...

[Marcus Brown]

conradcliff wrote:

> I did a quick search with Google and within this forum but didn't find what I
> was looking for...
> I have an ipaq 2215 with a xscale 400mhz cpu and 64 megs of ram. What I'm
> wondering is why I should switch over to Familiar.
> Will it run faster?
> Is there a lot more functionality? Things I never knew I needed...
> Will it allow me to use landscape mode even though it didn't come with that
> functionality?
>
> 2003se seems to be serving my needs quite well as it is but if there is a
> mountain of functionality I'm missing out on that can be found in Familiar I
> would really like to know. Thanks allot for your info...

Try these:

http://handhelds.org/familiar/
http://gpe.handhelds.org/
http://gpe.linuxtogo.org/
http://opie.handhelds.org/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/
http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/HpIpaqH2200
http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/HpIpaqH2200UsersDoc
http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/RamdiskRescue

Marcus.
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[Harmon]

conradcliff wrote:

> I did a quick search with Google and within this forum but didn't find what I
> was looking for...
> I have an ipaq 2215 with a xscale 400mhz cpu and 64 megs of ram. What I'm
> wondering is why I should switch over to Familiar.
> Will it run faster?
> Is there a lot more functionality? Things I never knew I needed...
> Will it allow me to use landscape mode even though it didn't come with that
> functionality?
>
> 2003se seems to be serving my needs quite well as it is but if there is a
> mountain of functionality I'm missing out on that can be found in Familiar I
> would really like to know. Thanks allot for your info...

   Well, it really depends on whether you're a linux person or not, I
guess. I run familiar on my ipaq because I won't allow any windoze crap
in my house, and certainly not in my pocket. Might give you cancer.

--
Harmon Seaver
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[Mark J. Small]

On Thursday 22 February 2007 22:31, Harmon Seaver wrote:

> conradcliff wrote:
> > I did a quick search with Google and within this forum but didn't find
> > what I was looking for...
> > I have an ipaq 2215 with a xscale 400mhz cpu and 64 megs of ram. What I'm
> > wondering is why I should switch over to Familiar.
> > Will it run faster?
> > Is there a lot more functionality? Things I never knew I needed...
> > Will it allow me to use landscape mode even though it didn't come with
> > that functionality?
> >
> > 2003se seems to be serving my needs quite well as it is but if there is a
> > mountain of functionality I'm missing out on that can be found in
> > Familiar I would really like to know. Thanks allot for your info...
>
>    Well, it really depends on whether you're a linux person or not, I
> guess. I run familiar on my ipaq because I won't allow any windoze crap
> in my house, and certainly not in my pocket. Might give you cancer.

For me it is the flexibility and familiarity of of linux based system.  I can
use ssh port forwarding with dropbear, and I developed my own printing
solution to worl with a sipix A6 pocket printer.  

Now if only syncing were better...

Mark
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>From the technical side of things, Linux is much better suited for an
embedded environment than windoze (even if they call it "Embedded").
Linux will multitask better, and is generally slimmer. "Faster" depends
on how you use it and what you install, but quite possibly yes.

With Familiar, you have a developing, changing operating system that
will allow you to keep upgrading to newer, better software.  With
windoze you are pretty much stuck with what you have.  You have two
different choices of GUI (Opie and GPE) with Familiar.  The package
management system is probably the best thing about it in my opinion --
you have tons of software available to be downloaded and installed
directly from your network connection on your iPAQ.  And what you don't
like you can change -- its open source ;)  

Finally, the support available with Familiar is great.  You've got an
entire community to bounce questions and ideas off of, not to mention
all of the other information already posted on the web.  

This might be a little bias, I am a Linux "junkie" if you couldn't tell.
If you're not a Linux user and you want to see some of the same
functionality (with a different interface of course), I would suggest
trying out one of the good live cd's on a PC (such as Knoppix) to see if
you like the whole Linux idea before you do any installing.

Hope that gives you some more info.

-TAS


On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 08:37 -0400, Mark J. Small wrote:

> On Thursday 22 February 2007 22:31, Harmon Seaver wrote:
> > conradcliff wrote:
> > > I did a quick search with Google and within this forum but didn't find
> > > what I was looking for...
> > > I have an ipaq 2215 with a xscale 400mhz cpu and 64 megs of ram. What I'm
> > > wondering is why I should switch over to Familiar.
> > > Will it run faster?
> > > Is there a lot more functionality? Things I never knew I needed...
> > > Will it allow me to use landscape mode even though it didn't come with
> > > that functionality?
> > >
> > > 2003se seems to be serving my needs quite well as it is but if there is a
> > > mountain of functionality I'm missing out on that can be found in
> > > Familiar I would really like to know. Thanks allot for your info...
> >
> >    Well, it really depends on whether you're a linux person or not, I
> > guess. I run familiar on my ipaq because I won't allow any windoze crap
> > in my house, and certainly not in my pocket. Might give you cancer.
>
> For me it is the flexibility and familiarity of of linux based system.  I can
> use ssh port forwarding with dropbear, and I developed my own printing
> solution to worl with a sipix A6 pocket printer.  
>
> Now if only syncing were better...
>
> Mark
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[conradcliff]

Travis Stratman wrote:

>From the technical side of things, Linux is much better suited for an
embedded environment than windoze (even if they call it "Embedded").
Linux will multitask better, and is generally slimmer. "Faster" depends
on how you use it and what you install, but quite possibly yes.

Now that's the kind of stuff I was looking for... Thank you very much. I wouldn't call myself a "Linux guy" per say, but I have been playing with several distro's quite a bit lately and I do look the whole idea of it all.  Anyway, I'm going to continue researching it and see what I come up with. Thanks again!