From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 27 11:28:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA09437 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 11:28:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA09370 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 11:28:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tera.tera.com) Received: from athena.tera.com (athena.tera.com [207.224.230.127]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA04977; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 11:26:02 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline Received: (from kline@localhost) by athena.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA27373; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 11:26:01 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802271926.LAA27373@athena.tera.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on palmtops In-Reply-To: <34F71043.9765C2EB@AdeptSolutions.com> from Roy Lovejoy at "Feb 27, 98 11:13:17 am" To: roy@AdeptSolutions.com Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 11:26:01 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL23 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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