On Jan 27, 2012 2:53 PM, "Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
Hi :)
I won a MC770FD/A iPad 2 Wi-Fi 32GB Black. I'm uncertain if I should retain or sell it. The iPad was delivered today and I still didn't configure it. I don't need all those consumer toys and I don't like proprietary software, especially I don't like Apple regarding to the company's policy.
It would be nice to have something for reading, instead of wasting money for ink cartridges, if I won't sit in front of my PC's monitor.
I would rather buy an e reader for reading . Most of them work with calibre.
an iPad could be useful for drawing. Running Qt linguist also would be comfortable to do translations, when I won't sit in front of my PC's monitor. Additionally it would be good to have a portable audio recorder, since my DAT recorders are broken.
Believing information from the Internet, running Linux on the iPad 2 shouldn't be possible and even original Linux apps that are available for MacOs shouldn't work on an iPad too.
I wonder if Qt linguist and some FLOSS audio software would run on an iPad under it's iPad OS?
Since my PC has got a wired connection to an ADSL modem (PPPoE), the PCI slots are used by 2 TerraTec EWX 24/96 cards used as MIDI interfaces and the PCIe slots are used for a RME HDSPe AIO card for audio and a GeForce 7200GS graphics, I only could connect the iPad by USB to the PC and Internet, because there are no free slots on my mobo.
Because I never used Wi-Fi or Bluetooth I wonder if those elCheapo USB 2.0 solutions will work with kernel ex 3.0-rt or at least with kernel ex 3.2 without rt patch.
http://www.reichelt.de/WLAN-Adapter/0/16/index.html?;ACTION=2;LA=2;GROUPID=7...
http://www.reichelt.de/index.html?ACTION=2;GROUPID=4321;SEARCH=Bluetooth
Any hints are welcome,
Ralf