On 12/29/2016 6:58 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Thursday 29 December 2016 02:31:49 Richard Owlett wrote:
On 12/28/2016 4:07 PM, Joe wrote:
On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 12:20:06 -0600
Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote:
What I'm looking for is a retail product that would compete with
PDA's of a decade ago.
I think they're called 'smartphones'.
Hardware wise, if all cell network connectivity was removed - OK.
It would have to be delivered as a "rooted" device so I could
install only the software that I actually wanted rather than what
some marketer that never met me just knew I desperately needed.
IOW I want Linux, *NOT* Windows ;/
Raspberry (sp?) Pi's have the compute power. But their form
factor is terminally CLUNKY.
That's because there are all those socket thingies all over them. Which
makes them useful in the real world.
They serve a significant market. I'm just not part of that market.
Using software as an analogy, my world view resembles the target
audience of "Linux From Scratch" &/or Slackware but I'm willing
to trade some of that flexibility for the convenience of Debian's
repository of precompiled and tested software.
Besides which I'm looking for an
"off the shelf" solution.
To which *precise* problem?
Me ;} Think in terms of Greek archetypes.
Did you look that up before you used it??? You are most emphatically NOT a
Greek archetype. You are, according to you, sui generis, one off,
unique. ;-)
That didn't come of as intended. I'd had a long day. I've been
more often referred to as peculiar rather than unique.
I meant to say that I was aiming at an archetypal PDA.
