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#10
A very minor addition to my comparative deathmatch between Nokillo and Archie:

One point where Archie clearly wins: it's USB host port. All I had to do to watch the pictures on my camera's CF card, was to hook up my USB cardreader to Archie (after having opened its file manager first, a minor quirk that nevertheless had me baffled for several minutes) and click on the first picture file. Archie's picture viewer opened and I could zoom through the pictures as if there was no tomorrow.

I previously tried this on Sammy, my Siemens SL4 SimPad (for the curious, a Wince 4.1 really big diskless notepad), where I inserted the CF card in the PCCard slot (with an adapter). Although Sammy recognized the card without problems, it seems Wince has no picture viewer that can effortlessly process 800x600 pictures, let alone the full-scale 2048x1536 versions (they literally took minutes to come up, this with a CPU that is not significantly different from Archie's. But then, we all knew that Windows sucks, right?).

So, Yay Linux! and Yay Archie!

I'm not booing Nokillo, but admittedly, as a camera picture viewer for on-the-road, it just doesn't work (unless I make myself one of those battery-powered hubs and can find the instructions on how to enable USB host mode on Nokillo, that is. But I couldn't be bothered really).