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At your convenience, you can install more Familiar packages. You can get the list of packages available by issuing the following command:
# ipkg list |
I recommend you to install at least a decent shell (bash), a tool to list the running processes (psmisc), and a text display utility (less).
If you want to be at the leading (bleeding?) edge of technology, you can uncomment the familiar-unstable line in the /etc/ipkg.conf file and perform an ipkg update followed by an ipkg upgrade to get the state of the art packages. Just remember what unstable means...
From this point, you have the choice to install a full blown GNU/Linux system, with or without X11, or to continue with the Opie installation. As said before, this last option was chosen in this document to demonstrate that an Open Source system can compare to a commercial system, and even do better.