iPAQ goodness
Last week my boss at work finally handed down his beloved Compaq iPAQ H3975 to me. It took me all of about 3 days to realize that “Windows CE for the Pocket PC 2002″ is the Windows 95 of the Windows Mobile family and that anything worth running wasn’t supported under it.
So, I did what any self respecting geek would do, I installed Familiar Linux 0.8.4.
My initial reactions were unabridged giddiness. Familiar Linux (along with GPE) is pretty much a full-on Gnome-based Linux workstation… only really small. I was in heaven, I had better hardware support (try finding decent Prism2 drives for WinCE PPC 2k2) and more “normal” applications like ssh and a web browser that doesn’t suck.
Slowly the cracks are beginning to appear. The H39xx series isn’t supported very well by the 2.6 kernel so the 2.4 kernel is retained for these. There are occasions where a reset is needed w/o warning and other such bumps.
Still, to be able to run Kismet from the palm of my hand, now that’s something!
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