-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 08:32:05 AM -0500, 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. Well when I got it my pc's OS was windows 98 and its interface was claimed to pe proprietary. Windows CE isn't magic or anything, it runs on processors just like linux. I believe the bn uses an xscale processor or some such which if it isn't supported yet likely will be at some point. A big difficulty likely to be encountered is with geting specifications for the hardware out of humanware without them wanting an NDA signed. That was IIRC a big part of the problem in supporting the keynote synthesizers with speakup. Without specifications its left to developers to reverse engineer protocols and such for using the hardware. Given that we have a very limited group of developers, myself definitely excluded, with the skills to do all this work and we don't have the whole big world of linux developers hacking on braillenotes linux on a bn isn't impossible by any means, but will take a lot of time and interest from people with knowhow. Well there's my take, and now its time for me to work on getting more of that knowhow I was talking about. P.S. if you really want linux, brltty, and speakup on a braillenote send a BN to Linus, Kirk, and whoever the brltty guy is, and hell if you have that kind of money you can send one my way too. *grin* - -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD4MR35JK61UXLur0RA0+NAJ0YeQT8tiHvpm5yAKOoGIRbcC+1xQCdHNii vn9NT8ryyKR85a97RG4ehJA= =l/gT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
