Sharp Zaurus SL-C3000 Instruction Manual page 162

my Zaurus SL-C3000 and SL-C3100
expand their repository to include more useful applications and actually test their packages before
they put them on their feeds. They also need to get off their high horse and not just say that OZ is
the best and everything else is crap. There are a lot of great functionality the other distros have
that the OZ people could learn from and adopt to make it better. It is quite ironic that a distro that
so heavily depends on package dependencies does not have a working GUI Package Manager. Both
the GPE and OPIE package managers crash when installing large packages or attempt to handle
package dependencies. The OZ flash utility/installer is also a joke as it is not even able to
(re)partition the install target/disk which the other "inferior" distros can do. The keyboard mapping
in OZ is less functional than Sharp/Cacko because it has much cleaner code and is not hacked
together. However, I like these hacks (ie keyhelper) because they are actually very useful and
make the Zaurus a pleasure to use.
Angstrom
Angstrom is the successor and replacement for OpenZaurus once it is stable and fully working...
Debian
Debian is another future possibility for the Zaurus once it has become stable...
OpenBSD
Apart from Linux distros, there is also OpenBSD for the Zaurus. Not sure whether I am going to try
it though. Learning Linux is already keeping me quite busy.
Boot Loader
There are also alternate boot loaders for the Zaurus other than the default one provided by Sharp.
With the introduction of the 2.6 kernel into the Zaurus world, several variants of boot loaders have
been developed. pdaXrom has a new boot loader starting with beta4 called uboot. OZ has simplified
the pivot boot process with altboot and once kexec is integrated, it could be used to boot other
distros as well. There is also a special boot loader specifically for the C3000 featured on piro's
website (http://www.piro.hopto.org/~piro/zaurus/bootloader/).
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