The whole “Do people really use their PDAs?” thing has me trying to whip my Zaurus into better shape.
I installed OpenZaurus 3.0 earlier this week. It’s become pretty decent and now supports synchronization. Most of the stock apps have been substantially upgraded, though they still compare poorly against Palm OS and Pocket PC equivalents.
I re-configured OZ to use SD/MMC instead of Flash for /opt, /home, and /root, per this FAQ entry (tip: format to ext2 first). Doing this frees up about 8MB in Flash for stuff that insists on going in /usr, such as many console apps, and elliminates problems with installing some IPKGs to SD.
With the exception of Hancom Word, everything I’ve tried to install under OZ has just worked. Hancom Sheet and Presenter, VNC server, some console utils, samba, Python, PyQt, KGrok, KOrganizer. Some of the IPKGs had dependancies that aren’t correct for OZ (ie: qpe-base), but using the -force-depends switch takes care of that.
Not sure what’s up with Word, it segfaults as soon as I type something, but I can live without it. I’m debating if I should temporarily go back to the Sharp ROM in order to IPKG up Opera and Jeode… probably not.
I’m digging around, trying to find more useful programs that aren’t just geeky toys. For me, something PocketBlog-like would be a Killer App. I’m considering a Python version, but I’ve already hit a stumbling block with xmlrpclib not liking Movable Type’s responses.
