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OpenZaurus 3.5.1 Released

Posted by timothy on from the ahead-of-its-time dept.

toarney writes "This is a few days old, but I just noticed that OpenZaurus 3.5.1 was released on 9/19/04. It is the first release based on the OpenEmbedded build system. You can get it in Opie or GPE Palmtop Environment flavors. Now if I could just get that 'magic bullet' program to compile on my Zaurus."

3 of 17 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I tried it... by the_maddman · · Score: 3, Informative

    You should be able to reflash it even with a dead kernel, you'll just need a CF card and reader for your PC. I've flashed the wrong kernel into my SL-5500 before and it keeps coming back for more, if you want to get rid of the 5600, just let me know.

  2. Re:GPE is really cool. by RevAaron · · Score: 4, Funny

    but was immediately put off by the reliance on the QT toolkit and the framebuffer.

    I was really interested in running BeOS, but I was immediately put off by the need to have a videocard to see the GUI.

    I mean, there has to be some way to push the pixels onto the screen, where you can see them.

    I'd second the suggestion- GPE sucks, but so does OPIE. No offense to the developers, both aren't
    the best soil from which to grow mature PDA apps, and hopefully things will get better. Sharp's Qtopia and Opie have a lot of little problems and immaturity leaking out of it, and in some ways GPE is no worse, and in a few ways it's better. And it's definately fun. ;)

    --

    Working toward a usable PDA environment in the spirit of Newton OS: Dynapad
  3. Re:I tried it... by mikecron · · Score: 2, Informative

    Follow these instructions: Link