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Title: My New Z6000 - Pls Help Which Os
Post by: antonov on March 31, 2005, 11:59:44 am

Hi,

I prowdly got my Z6k  from ebay. It has Qtopia 1.5.4 installed. Shall I change to a later version or Open Zaurus?
Sorry, this is not a new question but I am very uncertain. I do love linux but really need the Z and it is not for playing so I was hoping you could give me a good  hint.

Thanx very much in advande,
Antonov

Title: My New Z6000 - Pls Help Which Os
Post by: adf on March 31, 2005, 12:09:20 pm

then stay with the sharp qtopia 1.5 rom, if you don't want to play with it.

Title: My New Z6000 - Pls Help Which Os
Post by: antonov on March 31, 2005, 03:31:15 pm

Thax for the reply (hope it was not ment in sense of "why do you ask if you dont want to change anything") but if there are no majour restrictions and getting OZ would be much playing, I will follow your advice.

A.

Title: My New Z6000 - Pls Help Which Os
Post by: adf on March 31, 2005, 05:45:18 pm

Oz 3.5.3 is due soon. Use sharp for now, and see how 3.5.3 does on the 6k in the forums. 3.5.3 could be very cool. I'm looking foward to it. At this point, I would not start off w/ 3.5.2, though.

Title: My New Z6000 - Pls Help Which Os
Post by: rickh on March 31, 2005, 07:03:03 pm

I agree with adf on this.  Spend some time with the Sharp ROM, before you consider switching.  There's really no reason to dump the ROM in favor of another until you find you need something offered in another ROM that's not available in Sharp's.

If it does what you need it to for work purposes, why bother?  If, on the other hand, you DO want to play around with other ROMs, then have at it. :-)

R.
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Title: My New Z6000 - Pls Help Which Os
Post by: antonov on April 01, 2005, 03:19:03 am

@rickh @adf: thanx this is what I will do

Title: My New Z6000 - Pls Help Which Os
Post by: technojunkie on April 01, 2005, 02:24:18 pm

I agree with adk and richk.

Although I use a 5500 I had a similar experience when I bought my 5500. I am competent with linux and thought I could handle any issue I might forsee. I promptly learned that embedded linux is a whole new beast. And after flashing half a dozen ROMS I went back to Sharp until I fully knew what I was doing.

Hindsight being 20/20 I would have stayed with the stock ROM until I knew exactly what I wanted, then I would have looked at other ROMS.

Title: My New Z6000 - Pls Help Which Os
Post by: shurahbil on May 06, 2005, 01:48:04 am

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I agree with adk and richk.

Although I use a 5500 I had a similar experience when I bought my 5500. I am competent with linux and thought I could handle any issue I might forsee. I promptly learned that embedded linux is a whole new beast. And after flashing half a dozen ROMS I went back to Sharp until I fully knew what I was doing.

Hindsight being 20/20 I would have stayed with the stock ROM until I knew exactly what I wanted, then I would have looked at other ROMS.
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Well, there is a specific problem with my SL6000 that got me considering Cacko: Gmail requires SSL for pop service. I do NOT use my 6000 for playing--it is (believe it or not) my main computer! But having to login to GMail instead of being able to download into QtMail is a real pain. I installed STunnel which, supposedly should allow QtMail to download from GMail--but no luck so far.  Any help?

Title: My New Z6000 - Pls Help Which Os
Post by: adf on May 06, 2005, 02:05:12 am

qtopia 2.1 looks viable and pretty straightforward now too