I love opie. I use it on my 16/32 3650, on top of the familar linux distro 
for the ipaq (familar.handhelds.org).

I use it wirelessly with a wavelan or aironet 802.11 card. Konquerer is 
really nice (the kde web browser), and while it already supports ssl, the 
familar linux distro dosen't have the complete openssl install, due to 
space, so that it can't do ssl at the moment. Konquerer is much more 
advanced than dillo.

Sound works sometimes, but a lot of work is going into opie at the moment. 
THere are some really cool mainstream apps that are being written for the 
Sharp Zaurus, which runs the 'commercial' qpe, from which opie is built. 
You _can_ run most of these apps right on opie!

Go to goole and seach for zaurus linux software-- there are some cool web 
repositories of qpe software.

Lastly, they (familar people) are finally perfecting a dual boot ipaq (for 
36,37 and 3800) - i.e you don't have to remove wince. Of course, you need a 
CF to hold linux, and also a ethernet card, so the dual-sleeve is a must. 
Check out the familiar list archives for this month. One problem- you lose 
your ram, so all your wince _data_ is gone, but if you backup first, its no 
problem.

-andy


--On Tuesday, May 28, 2002 9:09 PM -0400 billy ball <bball@tux.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 28 May 2002, Andrew Diller wrote:
>
>> Just get an ipaq and install opie, I'm running it now. The install is a
>> no-brainer, and it runs fine with a 16/32 ipaq.
>
> opie? interesting! what's your take on the install/use? i have a 64MB
> 3670... wireless working? sound? how's the input? apps? i found the home
> page:
>
> http://opie.handhelds.org/
>
> tia,
>
> billy ball
>
>>
>> -andy diller
>>
>> --On Tuesday, May 28, 2002 4:57 PM -0400 "matthew c. mead"
>> <mmead@goof.com>  wrote:
>>
>> > What kind of chance is there of building the qtopia palmtop environment
>> > and using it on this device assuming we can get it booting and
>> > happily running netbsd?
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> >
>> > -matt
>> >
>> > On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 04:25:59PM -0400, Scott Bulgin wrote:
>> >> You can adjust the memory, I got a utility "MemoryAdj" from
>> >> http://www.cableone.net/evalondon/be300/swr.html which does the
>> >> trick.. I  was able to get the kernel to boot... made it to a grey
>> >> screen and it locked my unit.  I had to remove the battery for
>> >> several min. to get it back.. reset/power+reset/etc with no luck.
>> >
>> > --
>> > matthew c. mead
>> >
>> > http://www.goof.com/~mmead/
>>