Status of Linux on the Latest Tablet PCs? 17
AmbushBug asks: "The new Tablet PCs have been out for a while now and I was wondering if anyone has had any luck running GNU/Linux on them? I've found that its running on the Pacebooks and there seems to be some success with the Compaq TC1000. Has anyone tried running it on the Motion Computing, Toshiba, Gateway, or others?"
Not yet.. (Score:4, Funny)
Runs great (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Runs great (Score:1)
at least 75% of the point of a tablet pc is not dragging around a keyboard
this machine therefore doesn't do anywhere nearly enough to qualify for "does everything a tablet PC is supposed to."
Re:Runs great (Score:3, Informative)
Here's the problem. Good handwriting recognition isn't easy to code. There's some projects, like xstroke (which is what is commonly used on ipaqs and other Pocket PCs running Linux with X11, not QTopia), but that's just a single stroke recognizer. It recognizes things very similar to Palm's Graffiti.
Basically, what he was trying to say was that it works great save the textual input functionality, which is still pretty much limited to external keyboard (you could also use an on screen keyboard, but then you give up valuable screen realestate).
Re:Runs great (Score:1)
Re:Runs great (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Runs great (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Why run GNU/Linux? (Score:2, Interesting)
A successful and profitable Linux software company comes around that actually has a financial statement that doesn't make them look like a lemonade stand and Slashdot commenters repeatedly bash them. I don't understand it. Does Computer Science and Economics just not mix well in this crowd. Is everyone secretly against Linux being deployed?
Re:Why run GNU/Linux? (Score:2)
Linux on the Acer TravelMate C100 (Score:5, Informative)
Are tablet PCs hard to swallow? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Are tablet PCs hard to swallow? (Score:2)
Correct me if I'm wrong... (Score:1)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if they've been out for awhile, wouldn't that make them "the old" tablet PCs?