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Originally Posted by jmbowman
I tried OpenZaurus a while back, but at the time it wasn't as stable as the default ROM. I've seriously considered trying out pdaXrom (especially if I could get Qt 4 applications running on it), but that would prevent me from using the Japanese<->English dictionary...it's a closed-source Qtopia application. [Snip]
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Yeah, I tried OZ too, first impression was great, but then quickly faded and got rid of it. Lots of potential, but not ready-for-primetime I felt...
As for Qtopia, there are several options for having Qtopia and X on your Z...again search around the OESF forums or check out meanie's site...
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But this illustrates one of the basic problems with writing software for the Zaurus...people are running multiple, incompatible operating environments on it. The problem wouldn't be so bad if it was just a few people having fun trying out alternatives...but the default ROM is so stagnant that it motivates a lot of people to move off of it. [Snip]
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Again, the default ROM stagnation issue relates to Sharp's lack of support for the Z outside of Japan. So, given that everyone who bought one (except the non-clamshell design Z's) outside of Japan should have known that they were buying a Japanese market only device, there should not have been any surprise about this situation, right?
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Many Zaurus users have complained that developers ran off and spent all their time writing alternate ROMs instead of developing apps, but I think the main reason for this is that there was no channel for making improvements to the base environment...Trolltech was reluctant to accept 3rd-party contributions into Qtopia, and Sharp wasn't even bothering to deploy the new versions that Trolltech was releasing. So if a developer didn't like the way something in the base platform worked, they really had no choice but to go off and roll their own ROM.
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Again, this relates to Sharp's decision to make Zaurus a Japanese market only device, hence to support for everyone else....
But in the meantime, I and many others are enjoying using our 'micro-laptops'....
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Anyway, summarizing this into something relevant for e-book readers and portable computing devices in general:
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