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Title: Why Use Oz?
Post by: chris_debian on September 20, 2005, 07:52:15 am

Hi,

I am interested in buying a Sharp Zaurus 5500.  I believe it already has a linux based OS.  Could somebody please explain the pros/ cons of using OZ.  GNU/Debian is my distro of choice.

Many thanks,

Chris.

Title: Why Use Oz?
Post by: chris_debian on September 20, 2005, 10:09:38 am

So no real reason, it would seem. :-(

Title: Why Use Oz?
Post by: offroadgeek on September 20, 2005, 10:23:12 am

There are a ton of threads on this forum listing the pros/cons of using OZ.  You might try searching first and see what you find.

Simply put, OZ is most like GNU/debian vs. the Sharp rom or pdaxrom.  They all are linux, but OZ is based off of debain so you're likely to feel more at home with OZ on your Z than anything else.

Title: Why Use Oz?
Post by: lardman on September 20, 2005, 12:20:30 pm

OZ also tends to be the most up to date - for example I'm running 2.6.14-rcX on my c7x0 and efforts are underway to port 2.6.x to the 5500 (though there are issues regarding the use of SD cards due to an undocumented Sharp chip in there). I'm also using libc 2.3.x, etc.

So basically, OZ is the most up to date distro around. Now someone is bound to pipe up and say this makes it unstable, and it has to be said that some releases have had issues, but I've personally not had any problems I couldn't fix,

If nothing else, my post will start other people posting...


Si

Title: Why Use Oz?
Post by: chris_debian on October 03, 2005, 08:20:22 am

Many thanks, guys.