RAM isn't as important as ROM, which with that old a device is
probably 16meg, or 32 if you are lucky. you probably won't be able to
run 8.x on it unless it does have 32 or more.
as far as battery drain, the newew devices have more effcient boards
and so the battery drain is probably the same.
On 4/10/06, Jens Kahrmann <jens.kahrmann_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey all,
> after I finally sold my ipaq 3630, which mysteriously wasn´t able to run
> Familiar (see my old posts), I bought an ipaq 3130 with 64 MB internal ram.
> Not just for linux of course - I rather like this thing having a
> monochrome-display, so battery drain probably will be much less. (Especially
> when using wlan, in case I should by a wlan-card)
>
> My question: Am I limited to using 0.7.2, or can I use the newer versions of
> familiar as well? If so, is there something I have to remind when
> installing?
>
> Regards
> Jens
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