R under Pocket PC
One concern I recall from looking into this a while back (hopefully not founded) was the issue with floating point handling on the ARMs and similar PDA CPUs. This was relevant to the familiar/intimate linux distro's around 18-24 months ago, when I was considering an IPAQ or Zaurus to replace my old but not dead yet palm.
On 09 Nov 2004 19:06:39 +0000, David Whiting <david.whiting at ncl.ac.uk> wrote:
Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at myway.com> writes:
David Whiting <david.whiting <at> ncl.ac.uk> writes: : It is interesting this has come up at this time. Two days ago I : installed Linux on a Psion 5MX (16Mb RAM) and am tickled pink by : it. Installation is easy. At the moment I only have a small : compactflash disk so I have not been able to install X windows or R : yet. You could see if MacAnova will install -- its an R/S-like package. Its pretty small (even runs on 640K DOS) and is quite portable. Its not as powerful as R but its still amazingly powerful and you might be able to fit it on.
Thanks. I took a quick look and I think I would have to cross-compile it (I didn't find an ARM binary). When I get my larger compactflash card I am hoping that I will be able to just get the ARM debian package (and all the assorted dependencies) without having to setup a cross-compiling tool chain---I will have to take a look and see what is involved in doing this. I don't have a compiler installed on the Psion and probably would not have enough room for all the libraries (just guessing here). Dave -- David Whiting University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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