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OpenZaurus 3.2 Released

Posted by timothy on from the schmallness dept.

mpeg4codec writes "I was surfing around to-day and noticed that the OpenZaurus team has released OpenZaurus 3.2 Final. It's rather funny, because the ``unstable'' version still reads OpenZaurus 3.1-rc3.1. Wonder why they released this version as 3.2. They say lots of bug fixes and some new features. Check it out at the OpenZaurus web site."

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  1. OZ 3.2 by MazTaim · · Score: 2, Informative

    I have been playing around w/ it for the past few days. I must say this is the best release so far (as it should be :). Only beef I ever had involves the lack of documentation for installing stable feed ipkgs. You almost have to stumble around and pray you can install the correct dependencies. For instance, I am unable to install LIRC as it requires kernel-modules-2.4.6-rmk1-np2-embedix. Well...I have the kernel modules installed (duh...). I don't see any other ipkgs that meet this requirement in the stable feed.

  2. Re:great! by MazTaim · · Score: 3, Informative

    1) I could never get it to play nice. You couldn't see the icons or button pictures correctly. It also tended to puke every now and then.

    2) Finally I was able to install Konquerer ok. It appears to hit the sites w/o even a hiccup. I got it to work by installing as many libs as I felt might be needed to run Konq. Don't ask, I just picked them at random. I really don't feel like digging around in the ipkgs to find the damed dependencies.

    3 or 2) There is always opiemail. I can't get it to work, but I probably didn't install enough libs or dependencies to make it work. As before, I am too lazy to figure out what they are.

    4 or 3) I have only been able to get word and sheet to work. The rest...well I don't do presentations from my PDA :)

    4 or 5) Dunno. I use alternative apps that work similar for less (free).

    According to several posts on the OpenZaurus-Users mailing list, any problems w/ 3rd party applications should be posted as bug reports. OZ is supposed to be as compatible w/ Sharp's ROM for 3rd party apps. That is a pretty hard standard to keep at all times in my opinion.

    All in all OZ 3.2 isn't bad, but if you only use your Zaurus for PIM stuff, I still say Sharp ROM is the way to go.