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I used to have a Sharp Zaurus and saw what happened to it when Sharp ditched it. The developer community seemed to fracture into various different camps over what should be done for it. That was a huge shame, because there was so much duplication of effort and so many different ROM versions that the average user didn't know what to go with. They also spent years faffing around with releases that were so full of bugs and usability issues that you had to be very skilled with Linux and very patient to correct them, again alienating the average user.
So, as someone who doesn't yet own an iLiad and who unfortunately isn't a developer, I'm very cheered to see that there is potentially one single development vision for this project, so bravo to you all. Please keep it that way :-)
Despite my criticism above and the fact that when I abandoned the Zaurus platform, no stable and userfriendly build existed, the different groups working on the Zaurus had managed to do some serious work on its core software and had updated to a relatively recent Kernel. One splinter group created OpenEmbedded and Angstrom and these were meant to be cross platform. Perhaps it might be an idea to approach these developers and see if any of their effort with the Zaurus can in anyway be borrowed for the iLiad?
Just a thought
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