I bought the memory stick for my PDA, (for wikipedia),
and read the howto
page. I could do it myself, but maybe it is worth the money to buy
Tomeraider's solution.
Could it ever be worth the money when it's poor people who are paying? I
think Tomeraider is definitely not the way to go. It locks you in and
it's a crime against humanity to have African people (or countries) pay
software licenses - agricultural goods need to be exported to make up
for this.
...I loved to read Brazil's stance on this: the US is losing 1 billion
US$ on unlicensed software in Brazil, Brazil is losing 1 billion US$ on
paying software licenses to the US. So the Brazilians say, if we stop
using proprietary software both us and the US will save 1 billion US$.
It's about time to have a non-proprietary solution to carry Wikipedia on
a PDA.
On another note, we (
http://www.slug.org.za/ )
installed Linux Thin
Client labs in ten schools today, which included a March snapshot of
en wikipedia (including pictures).
This was mostly possible because the 15 Gig required (pictures) could be
carried to the school on a hard drive (the server pre-installation).
That's nice. Is that 15 GB the entire Commons? Or just the pix from the
English Wikipdia?