theKompany’s Zaurus ROM has reached 1.0. Announcement, download, tkc.rom home (not yet updated).
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theKompany.rom Goes 1.0
29Jul03theKompany.rom
16Jul03theKompany has released a new ROM for the Zaurus SL-5000D and SL-5500 (Download page). They have made many changes and released several revisions over the past few days. What caught my attention is that they’ve removed Opera, Hancom, and Jeode from the core and are providing them as IPKs — useful to users of other […]
SL-C7×0 from Dynamism
23May03Dynamism is offering the Zaurus SL-C750 now, and will offer the SL-C760 when it becomes available. $699-$799.
SL-5000D ROM Update (v3.10)
19May03The Russian Zaurus community has produced a Crow-style ROM update for the SL-5000D based on Sharp’s v3.10 ROM [via Sharp Developer Forum]
There are 24/8 and 30/2 versions, but no 32/0.
SL-5500 ROM Update
16May03The Zaurus developer site has a v3.10 ROM update for the SL-5500 that provides most of the software from the SL-5600, such as Opera 6. Documentation.
Where’s the SL-5000D version?
Zaurus SL-C700 Successors
16May03Sharp has announced that the Zaurus SL-C700 will be replaced by two new models, the SL-C750 and SL-C760. The C750 features Intel’s PXA-255, 64MB RAM and 64MB ROM. The C760 bumps the ROM to 128MB and has a 1,700 mAh battery.
The C750 will be available on May 24th, the C760 on June 21st.
Update: I probably […]
mono::handhelds is an “iPKG package feed for Mono and GTK# binaries compiled for the ARM architecture.” As of today it works on the Zaurus, hopefully this will inspire the qtsharp folks to work on support for Qt/Embedded, Qtopia, and Opie.
msmobiles is publishing ways to target the .NET Compact Framework without buying Visual Studio .NET 2003.
Boot OZ from SD
24Apr03There’s a FAQ explaining how to Boot OpenZaurus from an SD card. With this method the original OZ image is retained in ROM and can be booted by removing the SD card.
