What it is
FastTerm turns the Paper Pro into a terminal; this bundle turns it into a computer. Alongside the terminal you get a toolkit of properly cross-compiled, on-device-tested developer tools — the ones you'd actually reach for in the first five minutes:
- tmux 3.5a — sessions, splits, windows. FastTerm's tabs page with a two-finger swipe; tmux handles the splits inside each.
- htop and ncdu — what's running, what's eating the disk.
- fzf + ripgrep — fuzzy-find and fast grep, the backbone pair.
- lf — a proper terminal file manager.
- fastfetch + neofetch — the system-info screenshot you're contractually obliged to take (both screenshots above were made with this bundle).
Everything installs into /home/root/clitools/bin with one PATH line —
nothing touches the system rootfs, everything survives firmware updates.
The toolkit, in full
Every cross-compiled tool in the zip, with the exact shipped version:
| Tool | Version | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| tmux | 3.5a | terminal multiplexer — sessions, splits, windows |
| htop | 3.3.0 | interactive process viewer |
| ncdu | 1.21 | interactive disk-usage explorer |
| lf | latest (Go build) | terminal file manager, vim bindings |
| fzf | 0.73 | fuzzy finder |
| ripgrep | 14.1.1 | fast recursive grep (rg) |
| fastfetch | 2.66.0 | system info + logo |
| neofetch | archived master | the classic, for nostalgia |
| GNU Emacs | 30.1 | full terminal Emacs (emacs -nw) — org, dired, magit workflows |
Emacs, two ways
This bundle includes our GNU Emacs 30.1 build for the terminal —
emacs -nw inside FastTerm or tmux is the complete editor. If you want Emacs
graphically (real GUI frames, inline images, the pen-friendly rendering),
that's the separate emacsgui product — same Emacs tree plus a
headless X stack and keyboard bridge. Own both? They share the install.
Already on the firmware
vim 9.1 and the dropbear ssh client ship with the device — the bundle doesn't duplicate them, the README shows where they are.
Licenses, honestly
FastTerm is the paid, proprietary part. The toolkit tools are free software
(ISC/MIT; htop is GPL-2) redistributed with their license texts and exact
upstream version pointers in SOURCES.md — you're paying for the
cross-compilation, packaging, and on-device testing, not the tools.
Caveats
- Tested on firmware 3.26.0.68; e-ink behaviour can shift across firmware.
- Already own FastTerm? The toolkit tools are the delta — email your receipt and ask about an upgrade before double-buying.