Sunday, March 30 2003 @ 05:54 AM EST Contributed by: Smiley
Chris Larson writes "I hereby announce the release of OpenZaurus 3.2. OZ (OpenZaurus) is
an alternative Linux distribution for Handheld devices, primarily the Sharp
SL-5000D and SL-5500 PDAs. Said distribution includes the Opie graphical
environment, and numerous enhancements to both kernel and userspace when
compared to the stock Embedix distribution on the Zaurus."
This version currently, for compatibility reasons, includes the
2.4.6-rmk1-np2-embedix kernel, same as Sharp, with the exceptions of
numerous applied patches.
Changes:
* Numerous Opie improvements across the board, examples:
* on the fly rotation (no restart necessary)
* new Crystal icon set
* compatibility improvements for Sharp ROM apps
* new applications, such as TinyKate, UBrowser, etc
* New sound drivers. The headphone out driver now fully implements
OSS, and therefore works properly with mplayer and other audio
applications. The buzzer driver is now a proper dsp device, and
can play normal sounds, mp3s, et cetera, though its quality is
certainly lacking.
* Newer versions of numerous base system applications and libraries
* Newer versions of drivers, including orinoco/spectrum and HostAP
* Numerous new applications, such as vim, screen, python, et cetera.
* Bug fixes beyond count, please see the changelogs on openzaurus.org
for details, as well as the Bug Tracking System on SourceForge.
