Re: Linux Port to limited environment (was: RE: tlug: FW: Windows 95)

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 29 May 1998, Eric Standlee and Family wrote:

> Can linux be ported the the 3Com/USR Palm Pilot?  Does it need to be? 
> Would it offer more options?  Just wondering.
> 

Someone would have to write a touch screen kernel driver for the console,
though.  What use would it be, though?  You'd have to have custom apps
that could understand the touch screen, maybe thru gpm, or something, and
it'd still need to be mostly graphical and do handwriting recog...
probably not a terribly useful environment for Linux to be used in.

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