http://www.albatron.com.tw/English/n...lt&news_id=269

One of my forum members posted this today. Looks really interesting, but it's got sucky WinCE on it. Was wondering if there's a way to put Maemo OS2008 on it instead, and make it actually usable. ^_^;;

It has an Arm processor, so I suspect that wouldn't be too difficult.

hmm, swivel camera and a out of the box dock with speakers...

this thing could probably replace a web terminal for some.

i wonder if one could stuff a ethernet-to-usb into that dock and expect it to work...

It doesn't matter much what CPU it uses as long as linux kernel is ported to such architecture. Then it is equally difficult as any other currently unsupported piece of hardware. You need full hardware specification and programing info (or do a lot of reverse engineering) and then you need plenty of time (several man/months or possibly man/years). Did you expect any other answer?

it is somewhat larger, so it is not so portable. I am also wondering how long would the battery last. it will also be nice if one can load one or two linux dist. on it.

Well, I'm not expecting a lot from it, but it was an interesting enough design to be worth looking into. Hence why I asked what I did. I'm kinda fishing more than actually diving in to do anything. My expertise lies in user experience (UI design mostly), not kernel or OS hacking, so I'm not totally familiar with all the intricacies required to "hack" the OS to make it work in different hardware. Hence why I was asking here about it.

Welcone to Internet Tablet Talk :-)

hey!

look closely at the design for their stylus!!!!

looks identical to my acer n311's stylus.

To get better picture take a look at this page
http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.c...andheldSummary
This is status of porting linux kernel to many devices currently running Windows CE, PalmOS or any other 'foreign' operating system. Most/all of them have Arm CPU. Most of those projects take months or years to complete and quite a lot of them is never completed before device is outdated. Most of the work is in writing device drivers for specific hardware inside. Once all hardware inside is supported by kernel then you can start to tweak Maemo to support different or extra hardware (different screen resolution, more buttons, ...)

I've had what they call a "a-" performance. (installed linux on my old hp3650):
the system does work... BUT:
1- the processor it only 206 mhz, so everything was slower...
2- the battery drain was incredible - about 3x what windows 2002 took!