Re: [NTLK] Off-Topic Linux (PDA) Question

From: Laurent Daudelin (nemesys_at_cox.rr.com)
Date: Tue Oct 30 2001 - 21:16:33 EST

on 30/10/01 18:25, Jon Glass at jonglass_at_usa.net wrote:

> on 10/30/01 9:07 PM, David Orriss Jr at dave_at_davenet.net wrote:
>
>> I didn't enjoy WinCE on a PDA, and I'm concerned that in
>> making linux fit in a PDA we will see some of the same shortcomings service.
>
> But Linux is not the UI, am I right? You could design your own UI over the
> linux kernel or whatever they call that stuff. (coming from a Mac
> perspective, I pay little attention to Linux and Windows...) :-)
>
>> However, the jury is still out for me at this point. I'd like to see a
>> JavaOS PDA. Considering all the Java work I do, that would rock.. :)
>
> But wouldn't a Java OS PDA be as slow as molasses in January on anything but
> the fastest processors? Also, I have yet to see anything written in Java
> that was actually useful, although I would be glad to be proven wrong on
> this. It seems that Java is the buzzword-compliant platform with little to
> show for all its "promise." :-) Somebody show me something! (Or is it like
> Open Doc--promise of "solutions" but no real answers...)

You would need a real fast processor and a ton of memory to be comfortable.
And you would need to make it upgradeable because on the day you would
introduce it, you would already be lagging a couple of versions behind...

And don't forget that Micro$oft is trying as much as it can to kill it. For
instance, XP was released recently without any JRE. Micro$oft wants to
replace Java with C# (pronounced C-Sharp), which would run only on Windows
platforms...

Will they succeed? Well, who knows? There are so many lemmings in the
corporate US that I wouldn't be surprised if they were able to kill it...

-Laurent. 

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