Available ROMs for the SL-5x00

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Summary; see Details, below)

Available Choices

Sharp ROM

Probably the most stable and least configurable/flexible of the various ROM choices.

SL-5500

SL-5500, SL-5000D, SL-5500G (Germany QWERTZ keyboard), SL-5500 v3

Sharp ROM 1.3a - update recommended
Sharp ROM 2.36 - last one delivered
Sharp ROM 2.37 (June 20, 2002)
Sharp ROM 2.38 - update recommended: improves FTP security http://www.myzaurus.com/downloads.asp
Sharp ROM 3.10 - english only but works great (no German keyboard mapping) http://www.myzaurus.com/downloads3.asp
Sharp ROM 3.13 - CD-v313.zip

SL-5600

Sharp ROM 1.21 - stock ROM (on my 5600, purchased 2004-04-16)
Sharp ROM 1.32 - latest (2003-08-01) on Sharp's Web site http://www.myzaurus.com/ROMupdate6.asp

The Sharp ROMs are also available here on OESF: http://www.zaurususergroup.org/UpDownload index-req-viewsdownload-sid-29.phtml

Cacko ROM (5000D/5500)

Last release: April 2, 2004

Based on the Sharp ROM

http://www.zaurususergroup.org/UpDownload index-req-viewsdownload-sid-30.phtml

Opera, Word and Sheet need much a lot RAM, so in this update version /home directory moved to MMC/SD card. Instruction for update and prepare MMC/SD card you can read on Crow [1] rom page.

Features:

zImage - 32MB RAM for SL5000D and 64MB RAM memory for SL5500
Added EmbeddedKonsole
Added FileManager
Added fdisk, top, ssh
Added Process Manager
Added Smooth system fonts
Builtin Cyrillic support and russian keyboard layout
Opera moved from ROM for installing on MMC/SD
Removed patience game
APM patch from OpenZaurus kernel (adopted for 2.4.18 kernel version by Albert Rybalkin).

This patch implements accurate batery power reading, which allows to display actual percentage of remaining battery power instead of Good, Low, etc levels.