Embedded Linux

-- Ryan Cole Programmer Analyst www.iesco-dms.com 707-468-5400 The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience which in its very nature transcends lingistics. -D.T. Suzuki

their literature porting /View is just a recompile in order to get it to QT/Embeddix, a replacement for X-server.

considering purchasing the Sharp Zaurus that just got released (to developers only), but I would have to have REBOL/View run on it to be worth it to me. ;-)

Doesn't the Zaurus run AmigaDE? -- Graham Chiu

Amiga Inc could only wish ;)

REBOL would be a gigantic step up for the Zaurus SL5000, which I otherwise am _very_ disappointed with. Then again, I'm a windows user, and do use REBOL on my iPAQ, so perhaps I was expecting too much...

Could you share with us the reason you are disappointed with Zaurus, please? btw: as we are talking Zaurus, AmigaDE, etc. issues - Amiga got new board director: Frank Wilde. I had many choices on where I wanted to go next and where the best opportunity for the future was. Bill McEwen and I had been speaking for many months on business plans and other issues, and after meeting with the team, and viewing the technology and their partners, there was no better choice for me than joining Amiga said Frank Wilde, Chairman of Amiga, Inc. I just hope Carl has some Rebol technology advances in his mind, as business reblets are not something creating the wow/coolness factor :-) -pekr-

... I'd be happy to, either privately or on-list, but before doing so I should qualify a couple of things: (1) I am not much interested in Linux, although I am also not `anti-Linux' to any appreciable degree. It's just that linux capability, in and of itself, means nothing to me, unless it means I _can do_ something in my problem domains. (2) I have had an iPAQ for many months, and have REBOL as well as countless other complex domains that work well on it. The SL-5000 is, as of this point in time is real `Bush League' (no political pun implied) in comparison. (3) I tend not to have `toy' problems---I carry 3000->4000 appointments and 2,000 names in my phone lists. Some things that work well for tiny problems really suck when the problems get scaled to this size or larger. (4) Games mean nothing to me. I choose other forms of entertainment. (5) The microphone/speaker on the iPAQ are lousy, but they are at least _present_ as opposed to _absent_. I find that `voice notes' are quite useful in real situations, and this just about wipes out, for me, the SL-5000's advantage in having a tiny keyboard on-board. I should also say, that I have had the SL-5000 for less than a week at the moment, and am probably at least partially frustrated by things that are `almost the same' as the iPAQ, but still different enough to make them hard (for me) to use. I'd feel better waiting till I had a little more experience, so I could be---perhaps---more fair. But I recognize your (and others) being interested in `early' opinion as well, even if it is less well informed. Let me know if you want followup. I'll probably be in a position to say a little more after the weekend.

It's Zaurus, not Taurus. Perhaps this will help: The `Applications' screen shows: Address Book; Calculator; Calendar; CityTime; Clock; EMail; FileManager; Help Browser; Image Viewer; Media Player; Opera; System Info; Terminal; Text Editor; Todo List The `Games' screen shows 8 games The 'Jeode' screen shows 2 demos The 'Settings' screen shows 10 icons So I don't think `money tracking' is part of this release, at least not that I've found anywhere else. And, we're not neighbors unless you have a _very_ broad definition of neighborhood, as I live on the East Coast.