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Gemini PDA - Sailfish OS / EPOC on Wine on Exagear on SfOS?

« on: February 18, 2019, 04:41:01 am »

Hi,
I've not yet managed to load SfOS but hope to soon, so please forgive an ignorant question from a newbie. If as I understand SfOS is built on Linux, is it theoretically possible to run EPOC on Wine on Exagear on SfOS as mentioned for linux here?
https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showto...st&p=289981

I don't suppose anyone has tried this, have they? (As mentioned in the last post on that thread it appears that Exagear may stop being available from end of this month.)
Thanks in advance.
Ian

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Gemini PDA - Linux / ExaGear: Wine on gemini?

« on: February 18, 2019, 03:45:01 am »

How did it work out? Has anyone found this a working solution to running EPOC programs on their gemini?
My visit here prompted by a warning I read that Exagear may be about to discontinue their Windows x86 emulator for ARM; but that they will continue to honour current licences?€”in other words, if this is a practical route, it may be that I should buy my licence now!
Thanks in advance,
Ian
PS Just to add a link to where it states that this will be discontinued at the end of the month:
https://eltechs.com/product/exagear-desktop...-prices-final2/
click on 'other' for the ARM v8 offering.

Great !

There are scaling options inside Wine.

I'll try installing and configure EPOC OS Emulator to mimic an Psion 5MX inside Gemini.

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Gemini PDA - Linux / Final call for TP3

« on: February 17, 2019, 06:37:48 am »

Thanks for this update. I very much want to try out Sailfish OS, but would like to be able to try Debian at the same time. For the moment I've held off installing SFOS, because I was hoping for a new Debian TP3 at the same time. If it really isn't due soon, I guess I might just give sailfish a go. But wouldn't it be better to get the new TP3 out anyway? There must be a fair number of people like myself who are waiting for it, and the increase in users might just help give it a boost. (My excuse for not having sorted it so far is being 'time poor' for fiddling with lots of settings.) I'm sure there are others like myself who are desperate for an escape from Google and Android on the Gemini. The hardware (by which I suppose I mean the keyboard) is great; I'm just waiting for a better OS!

Anyway, all this by way of thanking you, Adam, and others for the work that is being done on getting Linux running well on the gemini. If there is anything we can do to encourage you, please say!
Ian

Given Planets Gemini update 68, specifically releasing sfos 3 beta from Jolla, plus:

We will update the partition tool with new versions of the software when new images will be released by the community.

This has taken the pressure off the TP3 release which I had thought was supposed to go out along with the new Android 8 + SFOS 3 etc.

So we might as well wait till we've got a few more things sorted out. Plus someone needs to figure out what the plan is with multi-OS in the new LVM land of the sfos release. I'm assuming we can lvm resize things to fit in a debian image too? But as that would require reformatting my device I'm unsurprisingly not so keen.