[TriLUG] Linux on the iPAQ

[Heath Holcomb]

I haven't tried familiar personally, but I have talked to someone who 
got it running successfully. He seemed to be happy with it. It's based 
on Debian's ARM distro and is supposedly binary compatible, so you 
should be able to install the Debian TFTP packages even if they don't 
come with familiar. Sounds like a fun weekend project. :)

Heath

Greg Brown wrote:
> Has anyone on the list tried to install Linux on a Compaq iPAQ pocket 
> pc?  I'm thinking about going for it this weekend but I'm curious if 
> anyone has tried it what you think about the distribution (called 
> "familiar").
> 
> Familiar is supposed to be full-featured distribution which I hope comes 
> with a TFTP server.  If it does indeed have a TFTP server the little 
> iPAQ would make an idea device to run around with and flash switches and 
> such.
> 
> Greg
> 
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