On Wed, 25 May 2005 12:18:22 +0100 "Adrian F. Clark" alien@essex.ac.uk wrote:
I *wish* Psion had made it possible to put Linux on their 7 Pro. That's be a lovely machine.
http://linux-7110.sourceforge.net/
Openpsion (formerly psilinux) is a project to port the Linux operating system to a group of palmtops produced by Psion. At present, working linux systems can be installed on any of the Series 5, Series 5MX, Series 5MX-Pro, Revo (Revo+, Mako) machines (NOT the Series 3). Linux on the Series 7/netBook is more or less working, although kernel support for the hardware is not quite complete.
Series 7/netBook Summary
We have X-windows, rudimentary compactflash, PCMCIA, and touchscreen support working on the netBook! Most wireless network cards and compactflash work "out of the box". A program called "bookboot" can be used to create "OS.img" files for directly booting to linux from compactflash (avoiding EPOC altogether). With the large-sized compactflash cards becoming affordable (1 GB or more), complete Debian systems can be installed on the netBook, including a development environment, e.g., the linux kernel can be compiled on the netBook.
So you can have your wish
Regards
Owen S