Good choice. I got one a couple weeks ago and while it has some rough edges it is a nice peice of work. I have a Netwinder, so I can do native compiles, but haven't actually built anything for it yet. I use mine mostly at work for usual PDA stuff, and it works pretty well for that, but its nice to have the linux underbelly in case you have to whip up a program for it. Be sure to do the firmware upgrade as it fixes a whole lot of problems. By the way, the little keyboard is actually really handy and an excellent feature. It doesn't take too long to get used to it and the keys are just spaced so if you press one with your thumb you don't accidentally press any others. Essential for any shell work, unless you just telnet in via the docking cradle.
Actually, if you pop in a big 256 SD card, you could have a minimal Debian install, but I'm just sticking with the somewhat weird and klunky default Linux for the short term. Right now its more a work tool for me, in a year or so I'll be hacking away on it ;-)
There is an effort to get a minimal Debian system running on the Zaurus: http://people.debian.org/~mdz/zaurus/
- Doug
ml wrote:
Hi,
a friend of mine just bought a Sharp Zaurus, and I'm thinking about a Zaurus or IPAQ, too. Unfortunately, Debian does not fit on one of these, so I like to use Debian on a i386 to cross-compile some software for the arm machines. `apt-cache search cross compiler' shows gcc for some architectures, but not for arm. I also found toolchain-source, but don't know whether this is the right package for cross-compiling. Any hints?
Cheers!
