Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Apr 2001 21:47:45 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Single user linux |
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Hi!
> > > What real value does it have, apart from the geek "look at me, I'm using > > > bash" value? > > > > I don't really want to get into it at the moment, but imagine hacking > > netfilter without lugging a laptop around. PDA's are sleek and cool, > > and using UNIX on them lets you write shell scripts to sort your > > addresses and stuff like that. Basically it's everything that's cool > > about Unix as a workstation OS scaled down to PDA-size. > > True, but then imagine trying to hack C (no, that's a CURLY BRACE, and a > tab! not space! you just broke my makefiles! aargh!), and compiling
So you telnet to your PDA from some real machine. And you don't need to write C code in order for unix environment to be usable. 50% of unix users I know use it for pine/mutt emacs/vi talk/irc/mud kind of stuff.
> Netfilter (it takes HOW MANY hours to compile init/main.c?!?) on a PDA. > Hrmz.
How many hours? I'd say less than minute. In todays PDAs, 80MHz mips cpu is *slow*. Pavel -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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