Transmeta's should run a normal stock linux kernel, but if you use the I686 optimised kernels in yoper or build gentoo wrong, forget it, once you optimise. you cut out anything not following your optimisations. of course if you build your own kernel, you will have a transmeta optimised one but ... anyway to the question. I think the experience of the DSE transmeta notebook should be looked at, I think its been wiki ed. But the camera and touch screen worry me, I think I would be very wary of buying a machine like that when I could not try putting a knoppix CD in and seeing what worked. The rest of it should be fine, but I have no experience of touchscrens, I dont think may distos support handwritting recognition and unless you did a google search with the camera details you would possibly have a useless appendage on the machine. What wireless does it have ? is it supported in linux too. with no PCMCIA you might need to master USB and wireless, and thats not exactly a minor issue either. But I am the first to admit I am guessing here. without specific model details I cant even do a google search to find out more so I would be of very little real help. Stephen Pearce wrote:

I found this on the internet recently ... it is $1290US plus postage ... it uses a transmeta 5800 processor and has a built in 3 Meg pix camera .. .. has anyone any knowledge of its ability to run linux? (as advertised it is running some windows version). google 3c and tablet and pc to track down the page)

Stephen

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