[Angstrom-distro-users] Collie (Zaurus SL5500) and likewise for the SL-5600 poodle

[Mark E. Daniel]

Folkert van der Beek wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 13:06 +0100, Willie Fleming wrote:
>   
>> On Thursday 10 May 2007 05:47:27 Ken Walker wrote:
>>     
>>> I understand Angstrom is now the way to go for this unit but I have not
>>> been able to find installation instructions.  If that is a work in
>>> progress, I will be patient, but if there are instructions somewhere
>>> could someone post a link to them?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>       
>> I can't find instructions either. I'd try and experiment but I'm scared of 
>> turning the Zaurus into a brick. If anyone can convince me my fears are 
>> groundless then I'll certainly go ahead and document any success or failure 
>> with the latest from
>>  www.angstrom-distribution.org/unstable/images/poodle/
>>
>> Right now I have Opie 1.2.1 runnng on OpenZaurus 3.5.4.2-rc2.  A few minor 
>> problems but I think I can get round them .
>>
>> I don't have a serial cable. Is this essential to be of any useful help?  
>> ---
>> Best Regards
>> Willie Fleming
>>
>> willie at turkistar.com
>>     
>
> Having said that, I would stick to Openzaurus for the moment if you own
> a poodle. Because of a bug that prevents your poodle to resume from
> suspend (http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2120) Angstrom is
> right now pretty much useless.
>
>   
Every ROM/Distribution has it's issues.  The fact is Angstrom is still 
being developed.  The rest of everything for a poodle is not.  I have 
yet to find anythibng that has every ap I need.  Openzaurus/opie is most 
promising from a should work prospective but then I can't install 
konqueror and have it runnable.  There is this beta qtopia ROM that has 
a VNC client and I was able to install qpdf and qpsword with it so it 
proved the most useful, but I can't install anything to SD with that ROM 
and there is no browser included with it.