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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Distros On The 3200: Pdax Vs Xii113 Vs Cacko Vs..?

« on: December 11, 2008, 01:45:34 am »

Which version of Debian, though? EABI?

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Distros On The 3200: Pdax Vs Xii113 Vs Cacko Vs..?

« on: December 10, 2008, 07:26:59 pm »

Nothing in Cacko installs to the hard drive, unless you hack it like Meanie did.

Oh, well no wonder I'm running out of space.  That's kind of screwy, then nothing is going to HD at all?  I'll check on the hack.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Distros On The 3200: Pdax Vs Xii113 Vs Cacko Vs..?

« on: December 10, 2008, 06:07:36 pm »

It's too bad... So then am I correct in assuming the only really robust Linux based portable that's going to run newer and more heavy apps (like aforementioned GIMP) without hunting for workarounds, juggling distros/roms or other tweaking is something like an Eee PC running Xandros?

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Distros On The 3200: Pdax Vs Xii113 Vs Cacko Vs..?

« on: December 10, 2008, 06:05:15 pm »

Jon, thanks again for your suggestions.  I had actually already Zedited my /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf (I didn't make that too clear before).  Strange that yours was MIA!  How weird. But mine was there and I definitely edited it according to the instructions on the tyrannozaurus archived page and no dice.  I re-loaded it twice after saving to confirm that it was properly edited with that appended WPA bit and yes, I am aware that when you do any editing of that profile in the GUI app you lose the edited WPA part.  Still, it just didn't work.  I'm not totally convinced the I-O Data card is up to WPA-TKIP which is what I had set up.  Still, WEP is okay (if a bit less secure and more of a pain with the keys instead of easy to remember password).

Cacko runs in NAND but apps you add to it via ipk format go to the HDD, correct?

I was just trying to get GIMP and Firefox running in X/Qt and Firefox triggered an out-of-memory-space error.  Hmm (?)...

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Distros On The 3200: Pdax Vs Xii113 Vs Cacko Vs..?

« on: December 10, 2008, 05:45:41 pm »

Because the N810's keyboard is lousy, the OS is lousy

Thanks Cap.  My brief handling of the N810 didn't allow me to get very far into it.  No wonder they're not going for that much on eBay and elsewhere.

So far, Cacko seems the quickest and 'polished' environment at first, but I'd like to avail myself of more robust and newer apps like Gimp (which I got running under X/QT but as others have found, it's not usable due to performance (understandable considering the overhead, I suppose).

Do you have a suggestion as to which distro is optimal, considering I've tried pdaXii13 Full and Cacko?  I'm not an utter simpleton but Linux thus far has proven a steep learning curve for me.  I'm 40 and I don't adapt so well to radically different ways of installing and tweaking...  I've come from handhelds running basically one OS, whether they be PalmOS, WinMob or otherwise.

Thanks again!

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Distros On The 3200: Pdax Vs Xii113 Vs Cacko Vs..?

« on: December 10, 2008, 04:27:16 pm »

Yep, I did follow that exact (archived) website and it wouldn't work.  Took a while to find a command line editor too, as it seems Cacko 1.23 didn't come with one (or I didn't know what command ot use).  

I don't think I tried Akita base, but I'd assume it's faster although I wouldn't know why - maybe part of the full version launches from the HDD?  Doesn't explain why so many things in Cacko run so much faster - and off the same HDD.

I'm seeing that Akita development may be on hold indefinitely or at best up in the air, and the forum for pdaxrom seems somewhat inactive compared to say, Debian.  Is Debian a better or more current alternative?

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Distros On The 3200: Pdax Vs Xii113 Vs Cacko Vs..?

« on: December 10, 2008, 01:40:28 pm »

Thanks Jon, that was exactly the sort of opinion I'm looking for.

So Akita Full into NAND is faster?  I think I installed it that way the first time and did disable Schim...  It was just incredibly slow loading almost everything and once stuff was running it felt like the stylus input wasn't really responsive, either (though that may have been the system response).

Yeah, I did find this for $110.  I sometimes feel guilty buying stuff at fleas since you never know how they got there. The guy wanted $200 but the battery was dead and there was no power adapter so I got him down pretty low.  Came with 2GB SD and an I-O Data WiFi card (which I'm not 100% sure does WPA because I tried for an entire afternoon to get that going and it never worked even after editing the 'WPA y' part of the WiFi config file - so I just reconfigured my WLAN for WEP and it's fine now)...

So what are the minuses of Cacko?  Does it not run everything out there, or require some things be modded?  I found stuff like Quake and a few other items were wanting extra components (I did find that thread that talks about that but it wasn't clear how to resolve it)...  I just downloaded ZPlayer and it doesn't seem to want to play nice with the vids I stuck on SD.  I've read that it's not being updated - and that seems to be a problem with lots of things in the Zaurus community (no offense to the talented developers who either are or have worked on these projects mind you).  

A friend has an N810 that I thought was pretty slick, so if this 3200 could net me about the same money as those seem to be going for, why not go with a device that's newer or (?) better supported?

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Distros On The 3200: Pdax Vs Xii113 Vs Cacko Vs..?

« on: December 10, 2008, 02:55:28 am »

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...