GPE Linux installed on iPaq.

First, let's see what the normal navigations around home screen look like:

No games are included in the default release. But you could easily download them.

Screen orientation could easily be changed to Landscape or Portrait.

Navigate to Media from Home screen. This screen provides a few typical multimedia applications.

Settings screen provide a comprehensive suite of tools to adjust a variety of settings. We will dive into the details of each one of them.

Active Tasks is a task manager where you could see all the applications that are currently running.

Tap on the Battery icon on the panel will show the current battery indicator.

Familiar distribution along with GPE or Opie (or even a full blown Linux environment) provides a very good foundation to build a open mobile Linux platform upon which businesses and individuals could take advantages of. Given that most of the vendors exited the standalone handheld or PDA market, applications such as phone (yeah phone, both GSM and CDMA), GPS, and so on are sorely needed. There are individual efforts to port this platform to other phones, such as Palm Treo, HTC device-based Pocket PC phones but none is stable enough for day to day use yet.

Compare Familiar distribution to other mobile Linux platform, such as OpenMoko, TrollTech Greenphone, OpenZaurus, etc, ...?