[E3-hacking] Is it possible to install a Desktop Environment into E3 Linux

[Nick Griffin]

I wouldn’t know how to port Minix,can anyone else do it..?

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From: Nick Griffin<mailto:span1922 at live.com>
Sent: ‎Monday‎, ‎15‎ ‎April‎ ‎2019 ‎13‎:‎11
To: Discussion of the Amstrad E3 emailer hardware/software<mailto:e3-hacking at earth.li>

I believe it needs a hacked version of the original firmware really and everything would work and if you could hack the internet and email apps in the Main Software so it would work with a network adapter to download email and that.

But that will never happen because there is no interest in the device no more and its too old now. I would like a hacked version of it. You could put a Raspberry PI in it and would need a 6 inch screen. I would like to use it as intended, as a phone and that.

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From: David Given<mailto:dg at cowlark.com>
Sent: ‎Monday‎, ‎15‎ ‎April‎ ‎2019 ‎11‎:‎57
To: Discussion of the Amstrad E3 emailer hardware/software<mailto:e3-hacking at earth.li>

Android's also way too big! Even the earliest version (I have one on my desk) needed 192MB. Current versions get a bit uncomfortable in 2048MB..

Linux is really too big for the E3; the OS, even the 10-year-old version the E3 used, doesn't scale down well that far. Now, if you wanted to port something like Minix to it...

On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 at 12:40, Nick Griffin <span1922 at live.com<mailto:span1922 at live.com>> wrote:
Thanks, do I download the latest version, its a shame this can’t run Android, Android uses Linux to run, well Android is Linux in a way, it come from it If Linux didn’t exist Android wouldn't.

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From: Ralph Corderoy<mailto:ralph at inputplus.co.uk>
Sent: ‎Monday‎, ‎15‎ ‎April‎ ‎2019 ‎10‎:‎04
To: Discussion of the Amstrad E3 emailer hardware/software<mailto:e3-hacking at earth.li>

Hi Nick,

> Has anyone got any ideas on how to show a gif on the E3 screen..?

If you have a working framebuffer then fbvis is a image viewer by
Ali Gholami Rudi who no longer uses X11.  See his `FRAMEBUFFER' section.
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Cheers, Ralph.

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