On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:45:13AM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote:
On Wed, 25 May 2005 11:39:56 +0100, "Jonathan McDowell" noodles@earth.li said:
I nearly bought from Shirt Pocket, but am glad I didn't as I've heard some horror stories about them since; I got a Japanese importer to send me my Z, which worked out cheaper but meant I had to do the English conversion myself and sort out my own PSU.
Hey, that sounds interesting! I wonder if you could tell us any more about it? Did you use OpenZaurus to translate it? Or is there a way of translating the shipped operating system? And whats OpenZaurus like?
OpenZaurus didn't exist for it at the time I bought it; I ended up doing some of the porting work required to actually get it working (and got my name up in lights at http://www.openzaurus.org/ :). I've been quite impressed with it. I'm running the OPIE based version (so qt on the framebuffer) because it seems to have better PDA functionality, and I do actually want to use my Zaurus for calendar/contacts etc as well as ssh, web and email. There are loads of packages available and I've been really impressed with the whole OpenEmbedded setup (which OpenZaurus is based off) - it's quite neat the way it'll build the whole cross compiling toolchain for you and then sort out a bunch of packages and a root file system image.
I used the instructions from http://www.trisoft.de/ for converting the Z to English originally; they have a helpful PDF with screenshots and things so not understanding Japanese at all wasn't a problem. The Sharp ROM is ok for the PDA stuff, but I'm much happier now I have OZ working.
Current project with it all is getting calendar syncing working; I've tied a couple of WebDAV calendars together with the Z now, so I can sync between Mozilla and it. Now all I need to do is add my phone into the mix. :)
J.