Linux on BrailleNotes

Travis Siegel tsiegel at softcon.com
Wed Feb 1 17:42:17 EST 2006


And what would be wrong with making a brltty 40 into a server?
On Feb 1, 2006, at 6:25 PM, tyler wrote:

> why would someone want linux on an ipod? its made for music, not an  
> os.
> Sorry, but I miss the point, if you can make it read the thing to  
> you cool,
> I got a 30 gb ipod here that would be awesome if we could do that  
> with, but,
> I don't see any other reason for putting linux on it. It would be like
> turning the blt 40 into a server.
> Tyler Littlefield.
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> [my programs don't have bugs, just randomly added features]
> [failure is not an option, it comes bundled with windows!]
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "BlindTech of BlindTechs.Net" <blindtech at blindtechs.net>
> To: <akp at eznet.net>; "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 6:31 AM
> Subject: Re: Linux on BrailleNotes
>
>
>> and to further point out, consumers all that that the ipod was
>> propiritary and we got linux on that didn't we? (we meaning the linux
>> community as a whole)
>> On Feb 1, 2006, at 6:32 AM, Ann K. Parsons wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> No, the BrailleNote's OS is Window-CE, but it's interface is
>>> proprietory.  You cannot put Linux on it.  You can, however use  
>>> BrlTTY
>>> with a PC running Linux.  Sorry, but that's the story.
>>>
>>> Ann P.
>>>
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