[Angstrom-distro-users] Status of Angstrom on c7x0

[Francesco Marchetti-Stasi]

Grigorios Prasinos <green at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> Francesco Marchetti-Stasi (Mon, May 12, 2008 at 12:09:54PM +0200):
>   
>> I was wondering what is the status of Angstrom on "old Zaurus clamshells"?
>> I am the growingly unhappy owner of a C860, which works progressively less
>> well with time; 
>>     
>
> I'll have to disagree here. It is true that Angstrom is not the most stable or
> the most complete thing available on the planet, but in my experience (on my
> c750) it gets better all the time. The work done on the kernel is amazing,
> basic customization stuff is working (like keymaps, headphones, rotation
> etc.), I can watch videos with mplayer (a lifesaver for me when commuting)
> and listen to songs, browse the web (with minimo - not the best experience
> but adequate), read mail, use a CF modem/cellphone (via irda)/WiFi card
> for network access, and even compile stuff (with g++/gcc, needed on rare
> occasions - I only wish we could have latex on it).
> A few days ago I got a 4GB SDHC card and I am using it with altboot for the
> root filesystem (ext3 fs - no problems).
>
> Of course there are problems but they are being worked on.
>
>   
Probably the main difference between you and me is that I was in dire 
need of USB networking - now that I have Matthew Swabey's backport, I 
look at the future more optimistically :)  I wasn't even aware that it 
was a general 2.6.24 issue, otherwise I'd have probably stayed silent 
and waited for 2.6.25 - and would have missed the images I needed, so I' 
am glad I asked!

> My personal gripe is that little things are not working but most have to do
> with gpe (like settings being ignored, etc.).
>   
Yes, I agree and understand it - actually I planned to start and try to 
fix some little issues like those, expecting their debugging may be 
within my reach, but I needed a recent version, and USB networking did 
not work on those, so I got a full stop... Now I have less time, but I 
hope to be able to collaborate a bit (weell, maybe event a few hundred 
bytes :) ), maybe even brush up my NSLU2... ;)

Thank you for sharing your experience!
Francesco.