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Originally Posted by BobR
More likely in my opinion is for them to just do Linux themselves. Everyone seems to be able to do it.... hobbyists, Nokia, Sharp, etc.
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Quite true. With a little Linux knowledge, building a ROM for a device such as the Zaurus is a pretty easy process. Sharp was good about providing the tools required to build ROM images, until they dropped English support entirely... Now we're on our own, left with whatever we can make ourselves, or what's leftover from Sharp.
For example, while it's taking me an incredible amount of time to
find the time to actually compile Opie for the Zaurus, once I have a good week or so to work on it, the actual compile should be relatively simple. I compiled a version for x86 Linux already, and it built without a problem, and ran perfectly. Of course there's bound to be a bit more work needed to build an ARM-Linux version, and actually put the filesystem together (although I have a base FS leftover from Sharp still), but even that should only take half a day to a day's work, including testing.
Just gotta find the time to do it.... Compiling 20 megabytes or so of source, twice, isn't quick. (QT/Embedded + Opie = almost 40 megs of code - compiles into less than 15 megs of binaries, if I remember correctly, though.)