Distros On The 3200: Pdax Vs Xii113 Vs Cacko Vs..? Options

[pixelator]

Hi all, first post (well, practically).

I found a 3200 at a flea market recently and was going to sell, but my penchant for gadgetry has, I think, overcome my desire for extra holiday funds. So, it's likely going to stay here with me for at least a while... Or I decide it doesn't serve much useful purpose (and I've decided that of lots of PDA's and similar items, including a Fujitsu U810 a couple of months ago - a fun gadget but too small for XP and the keyboard was neither thumb- nor touch-type friendly).

Anyway, I was wondering what the deal was with distros. I initially put pdaXii113 Akita Full on it but found the lag for opening apps and general speed to be really intolerable. I repartitioned/restored the HD for Cacko 1.23 and that's what I am running now. It's clean and fairly quick, but I wonder if I'm missing much flexibility. What about just plain old pdaXrom? Spitz vs. Akita? Yep, I've done some googling and some searching of these forums but haven't yet uncovered a thread that answered these questions (especially not one that was fairly recent).

Also, I'm gleaning that there's no simple method of getting Firefox/Mozilla on Cacko - so is there a Java and Flash ipk or other procedure to get streaming video and other flash or web based stuff running on it? Bear in mind, before this thing my Linux experience was limited to one simple install of Ubuntu on a desktop for work - and that's it.

Many thanks...

[Capn_Fish]

Because the N810's keyboard is lousy, the OS is lousy (unless you use Debian, in which case it's just slow, if you think pdaXii13 was slow, you'll be in for a surprise AFAIK), it has binary drivers that are a pain, etc.

Anyway, if you aren't aware of this now, Cacko & Sharp ROM, pdaXrom, pdaXii13, Angstrom, Debian, and OZ's packages don't usually play nice with each other, so if you were trying to install an OZ app onto Cacko, it might SEEM to go OK, but will likely not work. There are a few exceptions, but they're quite complicated.

The main downside to Cacko is the lack of development. It's not getting any newer, and there really aren't any new apps being built for it.