Marcin Juszkiewicz August 9th, 2006
Title sounds weird, but it’s true. Some developers from OpenEmbedded team built OpenZaurus 3.5.4x for their non Zaurus machines.
Koen Kooi uses 3.5.4-pre on his HP h2200 and has 72 days uptime with it (running GPE with current upgrades), 3.5.4.1 on Psion Netbook Pro (E17 enviroment - screenshot) and on Ipaq h5550 (GPE). He owns one Zaurus machine but it does run Ångström. Florian Boor uses 3.5.4.1/GPE on h5550 and plans to test on HTC Universal.
I was asked few times about adding non Zaurus machines into OpenZaurus and it looks like it is something to rethink. Looks like history likes to repeat - there were plans for OpenIpaq in old OZ times.
OpenZaurus team July 12th, 2006
Yesterday Richard ‘RP’ Purdie (our master kernel hacker) got sound working on poodle under 2.6.17 kernel.
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Marcin Juszkiewicz July 6th, 2006
The OpenZaurus Project is proud to present a new release of its free Linux software environment for Sharp’s Linux-based Zaurus PDAs.
OpenZaurus 3.5.4.1 supports clamshell Zaurus models and includes about 13,000 packages ready to install. The non-clamshell models can use the software feeds from 3.5.4.1 to update their base system.
Additional release highlights of the 3.5.4.1 OpenZaurus release include:
- Opie 1.2.1
- GPE 2.7
- WPA support
- Linux kernel 2.6.16
- Keymap corrections for all machines
- Fixed keyboard repeat
- Lots of Bluetooth base system improvements
- drivers for USB WiFi dongles
Englightment images will get provided later - we had some build problems with them.
The release supports the following Sharp Zaurus models:
- c7×0 (C700, C750, C760, C860, SL-7500)
- akita (SL-C1000)
- spitz (SL-C3000, SL-C3100, SL-C3200)
Release work would not be possible without the OpenEmbedded buildsystem which took most of the work from our shoulders.
You can help to speed up development by donating money and/or devices to our developers. Compared to other open source projects we receive very few donations, although we spend a lot of our precious spare time and deliver lots of good work. So if you are regularly using OpenZaurus, consider donating developers.
See the Release Notes for important notes before you install OpenZaurus 3.5.4.1. Also see Installation instructions.
Release can be downloaded from our mirrors:
if you want to setup mirror contact CoreDump ( oe (AT) hentges. net ).
Marcin Juszkiewicz
OpenZaurus 3.5.4x Release Manager
Marcin Juszkiewicz June 27th, 2006
About one month ago one OpenZaurus user contacted me and Michael ‘mickeyl’ Lauer with info that he want to donate two Zaurus machines to project - SL-6000L (tosa) and SL-5600 (poodle). After some discussion we decided that both machines will be sent to me. I will keep tosa for some time to resolve some of bugs, poodle will go to Mickeyl when we will meet in Berlin during OpenEmbedded developer meeting. Both machines are added into OpenEmbedded project devices.
As donor could not send them overseas I contacted Aman ‘TheMasterMind1′ Gupta (one of old time OpenZaurus developers) and he agreed to get them and resent to me. Last Friday I got mail from customs office that package wait for me. I went there, paid 22% VAT (110 USD) and got box with two Zauruses.
I plan to flash tosa to OpenZaurus 3.5.4 + upgrades and check what need to be fixed. Next I will check how poodle works but this machine is something which I prefer to not touch too much rather - it’s 2.4 support was already marked as ‘terrible, awful’ and we want to move into 2.6 kernel on it. I will check how both machines works with 2.6.17 and maybe will try to hack it a bit - time will show.
Marcin Juszkiewicz June 17th, 2006
OpenZaurus 3.5.4.1 is near to be released. Images was created and tested on all supported platforms (c7×0, akita, spitz/borzoi/terrier) and they work. Next step is generating feeds.
I will generate new feeds for 3.5.4.1 release. They will replace 3.5.4 ones also for any next releases.
So current situation looks like this:
- images are working on all platforms (thx to Mickeyl, CoreDump, RP and few other devels/users for testing)
- feeds need to be built (optimised for arm not armv5)
- images will be rebuilt from feeds and tested
- release of 3.5.4.1
I think that this will take about 1-2 weeks to get feed built.
Please send opinions to openzaurus-devel mailing list.
Status of building is available in OpenEmbedded Tinderbox as “ewi-OZ-3.5.4.1-feed”.
law May 18th, 2006
The Graphics Contest is now over and we (The OpenZaurus Team) have selected a winner.
And the winner is…….
Sebastian ‘xaos’ Rosik
Here are his fantastic logos:
Logo
Bootsplash Portait
Bootsplash Landscape
Some other logos could be found here:
Giovanni Baldini
Logo
Bootsplash
Background
The graphics contest thread on oesf.org has also some nice logos.
i hope i haven´t forgot anyone….
We will add the graphics into OpenZaurus 3.5.4.1
coredump May 11th, 2006
I’ve created a status page for Kernel 2.6 on Poodle so users can track its progress:
http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/kernel-26-on-poodle-status-page/
mickeyl May 8th, 2006
I just released a new version of the OOO newsletter!
The OOO newsletter sums up the developments of the projects
- BitBake,
- OpenEmbedded,
- OE-based Linux distributions, i.e. OpenZaurus & SlugOS,
- Opie,
- GPE, and
- Ångström.
Richard 'RP' Purdie April 21st, 2006
The Poodle from Dow Hurst (which was used by John Lenz for the original 2.6 kernel work) has safely arrived into my care today.
Now I guess I have some work to do! :)
OpenZaurus team April 14th, 2006
Over the last few days we have been setting up a Wiki working so work on documentation/faq/howtos should be easier. Today I want to share this info with users.
OpenZaurus wiki is open and wait for your content here: http://openzaurus.berlios.de/ - join us and help to improve situation with docs. Link is also added in top menu bar.
