[arch-general] iPad - FLOSS on the iPad - data transfer between an Arch PC and an iPad

[Ralf Mardorf]

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. Perhaps
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=770;SID=13TyKWTH8AAAIAADxiRjke9dfa8a88a9e2044f346f70b4c26a4ce
http://www.reichelt.de/index.html?ACTION=2;GROUPID=4321;SEARCH=Bluetooth

Any hints are welcome,

Ralf