From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 27 19:42:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA06250 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 19:42:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp.interlog.com (root@smtp.interlog.com [198.53.145.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA06189 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 19:41:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paulg@interlog.com) Received: from shell1.interlog.com (paulg@shell1.interlog.com [207.34.202.8]) by smtp.interlog.com (8.8.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA27496; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 22:40:55 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 22:40:11 -0500 (EST) From: Paul Griffith To: Gary Kline cc: roy@AdeptSolutions.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on palmtops In-Reply-To: <199802271926.LAA27373@athena.tera.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Paul Griffith - paulg@interlog.com On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote: > According to Roy Lovejoy: > > hi- > > > > Am currently running FreeBSD and loving it on a 486 box. > > > > But I see these new palmtops running WinCE, and I think to myself, > > "self", I'd rather be running FreeBSD off of 2 AA batteries than > > Windows. > > > > I know the most recent palmtops are running a non-intel RISC cpu, > > but some of the older DOS palmtops are obviously running intel > > archetecture. > > > > Do you know of any palmtops that are capable of running FreeBSD. > > I don't care if I have to get a PCMCIA scsi card, and/or have to burn my > > own > > ROMs, I just want to know if anyone has gotten a palmtop to run FreeBSD, > > > > and which mfg/model it was. > > > > > I'll second this request. Even without X, FBSD would be > a huge win on a palmtop. But chances are somewhere around > (abs) Zero , I'd bet. > > Nate? Anybody? > > gary kline > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Well there is a project to port Linux to a palmtop. Take a look at http://ryeham.ee.ryerson.ca/uClinux - they have a gif of Linux 2.0.33 running on a 3Com/USR Palm Pilot. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message