I'm curious what people are using Squeak for on PDA's, and how.
I chose the tiniest fonts I could find and still the basic tools
seemjust too big to fit well in 320X240...
I mean Browsers, the PDAMorph, and Celeste, which I've tried...

How do you do it? Screen shots would be appreciated...

Kevin Fisher <kgf at golden.net> wrote:
> Hi Folks:
> 
> For those who are interested in running Squeak on handheld.org's iPaq-Linux
> distro, I've got a quick update.
> 
> My previous 'howto' page hinged on the fact that iPaq-Linux was using
> CRAMFS, a read-only compressed flash filesystem and a read-write RAMdisk.
> This required some 'creative' placement of executables and images, as well
> as being rather memory inefficient.
> 
> But no longer!  As of the release of Familar 0.03 the CRAMFS is gone,
> and JFFS2 is in place...JFFS2 being a clever journalling flash filesystem
> that is totally read-write.  This makes life much easier when trying
> to squeeze more space out of the iPaq.  As soon as minnow comes alive
> again I'll hopefully update my howto page..life is much easier with
> JFFS2.  Basically you can treat the whole flash filesystem like a 
> 'normal' filesystem now...plus the RAMdisk filesystem is still there, too.
> 
> Also, Squeak has the dubious honour of being able to hard-crash Linux on
> the iPaq...not sure what is happening there, but I managed to get half
> a stack dump off the serial port before everything locked.  The only
> thing I'm certain of is that it is the Squeak VM executable that is 
> crashing the kernel...but I need to make it happen again so I can get 
> a full crash dump off the console.  (The Squeak in qustion is the
> Unix 3.0 beta 2 stuff, although I suspect 2.9a of doing the same
> thing.)