Hi :) I won a MC770FD/A iPad 2 Wi-Fi 32GB Black. I'm uncertain if I should retain or sell it. The iPad was delivered today and I still didn't configure it. I don't need all those consumer toys and I don't like proprietary software, especially I don't like Apple regarding to the company's policy. It would be nice to have something for reading, instead of wasting money for ink cartridges, if I won't sit in front of my PC's monitor. Perhaps an iPad could be useful for drawing. Running Qt linguist also would be comfortable to do translations, when I won't sit in front of my PC's monitor. Additionally it would be good to have a portable audio recorder, since my DAT recorders are broken. Believing information from the Internet, running Linux on the iPad 2 shouldn't be possible and even original Linux apps that are available for MacOs shouldn't work on an iPad too. I wonder if Qt linguist and some FLOSS audio software would run on an iPad under it's iPad OS? Since my PC has got a wired connection to an ADSL modem (PPPoE), the PCI slots are used by 2 TerraTec EWX 24/96 cards used as MIDI interfaces and the PCIe slots are used for a RME HDSPe AIO card for audio and a GeForce 7200GS graphics, I only could connect the iPad by USB to the PC and Internet, because there are no free slots on my mobo. Because I never used Wi-Fi or Bluetooth I wonder if those elCheapo USB 2.0 solutions will work with kernel ex 3.0-rt or at least with kernel ex 3.2 without rt patch. http://www.reichelt.de/WLAN-Adapter/0/16/index.html?;ACTION=2;LA=2;GROUPID=770;SID=13TyKWTH8AAAIAADxiRjke9dfa8a88a9e2044f346f70b4c26a4ce http://www.reichelt.de/index.html?ACTION=2;GROUPID=4321;SEARCH=Bluetooth Any hints are welcome, Ralf
