The default system can run graphics adequately. So can pdaXrom, and OpenZaurus/Angstrom, or the Cacko ROM. These OS's burden the Zaurus less then OpenBSD does. There are ways to improve speed, however.d If you're expecting to run KDE or GNOME with 10 open windows, good luck with that. If you use much less minimalistic, smaller Window managers (like cwm), however, it becomes much more bearable.
It can play movies. I'm not sure how well they play in OpenBSD/zaurus, as it's been a while - I used to encode them perfectly for the Zaurus, at just the right settings for ideal playback - it would stutter a bit, but it was bearable. AKA, it can play movies, but you'll need to re-encode them if you want playback performance to be decent. The built-in keyboard is wonderful. However, it is quite obviously too small to type with in regular fashion, and it's slow going. If you're comfortable on the command-line and are willing to put up with some annoyances here and there, it's a decent choice. I certainly don't regret purchasing mine. I recommend dual-booting it, as well - OpenBSD installs to the hard drive, leaving the flash empty as well - may as well put the flash to use, and install Cacko on it. It'll give you essentially the built-in Linux, only improved, along with OpenBSD as boot options. Instructions are on oesf.org/forums. I also recommend poking around in there. It's a great purchase - just keep in mind the low hardware specs. On 8/25/07, frantisek holop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hmm, on Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 12:04:29AM -0400, Nick Guenther said that > > The battery life is 7 hours (12 if you pull magic hax of making the > > screen turn off when not in use and compulsively put it in standby > > most of the time) and a lot less with a wifi card in. > > 7h is not that bad compared to a notebook (e.g. on a plane). > > > What's your usage like? It's too slow to run anything graphical > > reasonably, though you can if you absolutely have to. I mostly keep it > > in console with screen running a bunch of different windows with mg > > running, for various note takings. > > slow for graphics? but the default system is all grahic, isn't it? > and some reseller ad said it can do divx's... > > > > It doesn't work for every day usage. I'm getting used to it but it's > > still too flakey to be trusted. I'm slowly hacking in things that make > > too flakey to bu trusted? what's that mean? > > > the problem is that 7"-13" (sub 2 kg category) stuff is just starting > to emerge and is either not possible to buy yet, insanely expensive or > both.. i would be perfectly ok with an OLPC kind of notebook but they > just started this ball rolling for the competition. > > -f > -- > if you live long enough, it will kill you...
