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Step 12In which the author solicits contributions
Firstly, thanks to everyone for your positive comments! It means a lot to hear people "sass" my work :)
Secondly, it has come to my attention that a fair few people have different hardware they would like to try this on, but can't get their hands on a 5mx.
Using a Psion makes it difficult.
The original Psion operating system was no good because it didn't have the ability to display HTML files, which ultimately are what Wikipedia is made of, so installing Linux was necessary to get this feature. There are plenty of modern PDAs and smartphones that already have a browser, some even running Linux out of the box, that would make great bases for a similar project.
If your PDA or smartphone has a browser, all you have to do is get a large memory card that your device can read from, and unpack a static wikipedia dump to it.
If you have a Nokia 9300, you don't need to install Linux- it already has a browser with the Symbian OS it's running, so all you should have to do is plug in a memory card with the wiki dump on it.
If you have your own device and are thinking of doing something similar, I would love to see photos or screenshots of it running- if you're happy for me to do so I will add them to this Instructable and credit you
Secondly, it has come to my attention that a fair few people have different hardware they would like to try this on, but can't get their hands on a 5mx.
Using a Psion makes it difficult.
The original Psion operating system was no good because it didn't have the ability to display HTML files, which ultimately are what Wikipedia is made of, so installing Linux was necessary to get this feature. There are plenty of modern PDAs and smartphones that already have a browser, some even running Linux out of the box, that would make great bases for a similar project.
If your PDA or smartphone has a browser, all you have to do is get a large memory card that your device can read from, and unpack a static wikipedia dump to it.
If you have a Nokia 9300, you don't need to install Linux- it already has a browser with the Symbian OS it's running, so all you should have to do is plug in a memory card with the wiki dump on it.
If you have your own device and are thinking of doing something similar, I would love to see photos or screenshots of it running- if you're happy for me to do so I will add them to this Instructable and credit you
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