Re: [tlug] Some advices for Zaurus

[Edward Middleton <edwardmiddleton@example.com>]

On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 23:21 +0100, Ulrich Plate wrote:
> Edward Middleton wrote:
> 
> > From what I have seen of it so far pdaXrom is the best ROM I have
> > used.  It has every package you could want and runs like a Linux box.
I got inspired after looking at 

Title: 極めるLinuxザウルス pdaXromで作る最強環境
ISBN：4-7741-2485-0

It explains how to backup to ROM and some useful information on setting
the Japanese environment.

> This makes for an excellent New Year's resolution: getting my neglected
> C700 put to good use again. Sometime around September I had already
> embarked on that mission, but eventually didn't have time to do much. I
> was planning to use the CackoROM variant because it advertises a
> Japanese kernel, whatever that means, but it sounded like I'd be able
> to keep the original Sharp environment.
The pdaXrom is a new ROM so you lose everything from the old
environment.
> Which, as far as the handwriting recognition engine is concerned,
> would be imperative for me.
It might be possible to package and install them though.

> Other than that, I'd need wpa_supplicant complete with a suitable
> CF-sized WLAN card, KDE PIM/Pi[1] - and a rechargeable battery that
> doesn't die after twenty minutes (which the current one does whenever
> I have the Wifi switched on).
I modded the larger battery to fit into the C700 which gives me longer
usage.

>  Does any of this sound doable to
> you?
> 
> And stretching both my abilities and the likelihood of following
> through on said type of year end resolutions: how about starting a
> Gentoo/Zaurus project, as a replacement for the one Opensistemas[2] is
> not doing?
Someone already has but they took to approach of building from the
Zaurus which although novel is not very practical.
-- 
Edward Middleton <edwardmiddleton@example.com>