I also own a Zaurus, which I have had for a long time. It is a nice bit of kit, as a toy, though I do have problems with it as a PDA. I currently run OZ 3.2, which I have inherited many problems such as the Z locking when docking in cradle, hard locks now and again, slow after a suspend, some of the apps which I need to organise my life are buggy and in some instances fail to work. I am sure many of these issues can be resolved if you have time to speak to the ever growing community, which I don't, which is why my Z has been neglected by not being used. Yeah it is cool, but for me it was an expensive toy which fails to deliver out of the box, again unless you have time. I have debated switching back to the latest Sharp ROM, though I hear it still doesn't match OZ.
Anyone used the crow rom?
Jamie
-----Original Message----- From: main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Adam Bower Sent: 14 April 2003 21:51 To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [Alug] Zauruss (Zaurui?)
On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 10:16:52PM +0100, BenE wrote:
Does anyone know of a place in Norwich that sells the Sharp Zaurus PDA pls? I've been looking to buy one for a while now and since they are *relatively* cheap, as I've discovered tonight, I'm even more tempted :-)
I got mine from http://www.expansys.com I know its not in Norwich but they were/are cheap and fairly reliable for that kind of stuff.
Has anyone had any experience of them? I assume being linux based there would be no problems connecting my desktop to it. I've now realised that's prolly quite a big assumption, hmm?
Well I own one, the first thing I did was ditch the Sharp Linux and replace it with openzaurus http://www.openzaurus.org mine syncs to my work (windows atm) desktop using qtopia which you can download from the trolltech website. There are linux packages that do the same also so it should be relatively easy to get working. My Zaurus at home uses a wireless lan to connect to things and at work it uses the USB cradle (this can have problems in linux if you have a kernel lower than 2.4.21pre7 so you may need to walk on the wild side a bit)
Anyhow the Zaurus is a great little bit of kit, you may want to factor the cost of getting a 128Mb MMC for it so you can run your / filesystem off that and then dedicate 64Mb of memory for RAM.
Adam -- jabberid = quinophex@jabber.earth.li AFFS || http://www.affs.org.uk/ || Not a filesystem
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