Openzaurus 3.0 Released · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 30, 2002 @08:20AM from the happy-to-see-you dept.

numatrix writes "The first major stable version of OpenZaurus was released today. The 3.0 build offers the stability of the official Sharp ROMs, the freedom of open source, and a number of features the Sharp ROMs lack. Most importantly, the built-in 16MB flash ROM area of the PDA is read/write, instead of read-only as the sharp ROM uses it. A community effort, the only piece that isn't open source is the SD driver module taken from the Sharp ROM since no OS equivalent exists. The updated ROM also includes the newest version of Opie, the opensource fork of Qtopia, Trolltech's embedded version of QT, and will soon include PicoGui and X support."

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Re:First major s/w project error? by numatrix · 2002-10-30 09:08 · Score: 5, Interesting

Because the sharp work was a complete hack. It was a sym-link nightmare, full of all sorts of oddities to make things work instead of being cleanly designed. OZ will (and already has) benefit greatly from being a fresh rewrite.