Angstrom Opie 1.2.3 Testing Options

[Blue Lightning]

Hi all,

I would like to announce that some testing images of the Angstrom Linux distribution containing the Opie user environment version 1.2.3 are now available. For most devices, this is the first time Opie 1.2.3 has been available in a distribution in any form, and once testing and debugging has finished we hope that this will give access to Opie to more users.

If you have one of the following listed devices, we would love to hear feedback on how well it works for you:

• Zaurus SL-5500
• Zaurus SL-5600
• Zaurus SL-C1000
• Zaurus SL-C3000
• Zaurus SL-C7x0
• Zaurus SL-6000
• iPAQ h2200 series
• iPAQ h3900 series
• iPAQ h4000 series
• iPAQ h5000 series
• iPAQ hx4700
• Motorola A780
• HTC Universal
• Siemens Simpad (see note [1])

The central point for information is the following wiki page:

  http://linuxtogo.org/gowiki/AngstromOpieTesting

From there you can find information on how to download and run an image on your device as well as some known issues.

Opie is now on the path to becoming a supported choice of environment within Angstrom, and we expect the testing period to last for at least a month, during which time we will be collecting information and fixing serious bugs where they are found.

We welcome all feedback, so if you can, please try one of the images and send your reports to angstrom-distro-users@linuxtogo.org.

Thanks,
Paul

[1] There is an image available for the Siemens Simpad, but there is a bug preventing Opie from starting on this device - some help debugging this problem would be welcome (see http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3681 for details).

[agosine]

I am really happy to see Opie available as I found it works better for my needs. How is development coming along? Is a browser available or any other packages?

[Blue Lightning]

Development is a little slow at the moment seeing as I'm pretty much the only person working on Opie. I haven't done much on it lately either as I'm moving to the UK in a week's time, but I hope to get back into it soon. There aren't any packages for the browser (Konqueror Embedded) but it probably wouldn't require much more work to produce them.

The rotated directional keys issue is known - Opie and Qt/E are both trying to handle rotating the keys. I really have to sit down and come up with a patch to disable Qt/E's code for this so we can move forward.

Thanks for the feedback