Re: B5 laptop recommendations?

[Jonathan Q <jq@example.com>]

Grendel (grendel@example.com) wrote:

Grendel> P.S. Just realized that one could try running something like TCM with
Grendel> wine or Vmware. Then a project came to mind that belongs in the same box

Running it under VMWare is not a problem (that's what I do on my workstation;
I don't have a Windows box at work), because running in VMWare means you
are running it natively in Windows.  I run NT4-SP6 under VMWare and have
an NTFS file system inside the container file.  It works well and is stable,
but if I were doing it over again I would probably use Win 98, for speed
reasons.

Wine is another issue altogether.  TCM will install in Wine, but doesn't
work at all beyond that.  You can start it and attempt to open a 
chassis, but as soon as you do, it goes splat with an SNMP API error.
Apparently, that is an area where Wine still needs work.

But the day that TCM will run stably in Wine is the day I can do away
with VMWare :-)

Grendel> as Linux for wristwatches, TI calculators, and old Ciscos: Set up a

More useful than you might think, those.  The UcLinux on Cisco is just kind
of a toy (but a fun one), but there's a serious underpinning there:  Linux,
coming soon to an embedded device near you.  Samsung's Linux-based PDA (Yopy)
seems to be making progress, too.  I saw screenshots of it running Heretic
the other day.  Linux for embedded systems will mean that a company that
wants to make such a device does not have to spend a ton of time and money
developing their own proprietary OS or licensing one from somebody else.
Instead, they will be able to base their device on a freely available system.
The bottom line - a faster time to market with a lower development cost.
Embedded Linux has a lot of promise for hardware makers.

Jonathan