I would also be interested to know if other OSes can run. DOS, for example, in a qemu container? By the way, I recall Win98 running acceptably in 16M of RAM on 220MHz PCs. There are at least a couple of good reasons a person might want to run DOS, emulated or otherwise, on the 770, no? For example, you could run Lotus Agenda 2.0, which you can get off the web. You could run (I imagine) older versions of WordPerfect (yeah, I know, no flames please.) Maybe some DOS games . . .

It's not free, but QNX seems like it would be really cool on the 770. About seven years ago I was able to compile and run the RTF editor Ted for that OS. Ted might be a cool app for the 770, as far as that goes.

Anyone have a clue as to whether qemu would run on the 770?

Someone got dosemu running, slowly - but with no VKB support you'd need a Bluetooth keyboard.

Similarly for my in-progress ArcEm port.

Why not just buy a pocketPC if you want windows?

well, I think that would be very interesting to use other flavors of Linux, like the zaurus, so, I will encourage to anybody looking for something in this direction.

Merry Christmas

why?
 

coz software is limited

Not really. I can run kismet and get wireless access points. I can read books, edit files in vi, watch tv, surf the web, do rss feeds, chat on irc, use it as a pim (although I prefer my day planer for that, which is a personal preference), run nmap to look for open ports on my network, play games (dungeon master and doom), and play music.

so what can windows do that would be better?

What few limitations I a have seen with this device are hardware not software.

it be nice to be able to watch some videos on some web sites and maybe an upgrade the flash plug in.

thats my biggest gripe.

I can do that at home on my linux box. The lack of flash for linux (and thus the 770) is an issue with macromedia / adobe, not the system.

i never mentioned about the system, just the software

Excuse my ignorance here, as I'm new to Linux. Just got the 770 from CompUSA (with the $100 rebate!) and have been enjoying it.

When I go to video.google.com from Opera on the 770, it forwards me to Adobe to install Flash 7.0.69.0 for Linux and Mozilla browser. Would this only work in Minimo?

Are we're not able to install this version because it's not Maemo/770 compatible?