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Zaurus - Void Linux support / Re: Alpha Testing - Netsurf Browser

« on: April 18, 2023, 11:39:27 am »

Yes, the binary is statically built, so it can be just executed.
gomuks does not perform too badly for me, although a long list of messages in a channel requires some loading time. It is really nice to use because of the keyboard shortcuts and makes the Zaurus (At least for me) really a usable device again.
Ah, the PR sounds great and a ready package would be definitely nice to have.

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Zaurus - Arch Linux ARM support / Re: ARMv5 support dropped in Arch Linux ARM

« on: April 15, 2023, 04:10:30 pm »

Would it be feasible to just rebuild all the recent packages for ARMv5 and host them somewhere else?

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Zaurus - Void Linux support / Re: Alpha Testing - Netsurf Browser

« on: April 15, 2023, 04:08:48 pm »

Hi greguu,

thanks a lot for the continued support! Netsurf works great for me
I have built gomuks  (A matrix client) for ARMv5 and it works nicely on the Zaurus with Void Linux.
If anyone is interested, you can find it in the attachment.

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Zaurus - Void Linux support / Nano-X on Zaurus

« on: July 13, 2022, 12:31:59 pm »

Hi!
Even if you can do everything with a console, pdaxrom and qtopia show that the Zaurus with a good GUI can still be a swiss army knife of portable computing. My dream would be to combine the modern foundation of Void (or Arch, or Debian...) with such a lightweight GUI.

My attempts to get X to run performantly have been fruitless so far. Under Arch, vanilla X is much too slow because of the 64 MB RAM.
Even an optimized system built from scratch using buildroot has also proven to be impractical.

Now I came across the following: http://www.microwindows.org/

This seems to be an alternative X-compatible display server which can run with a framebuffer or SDL backend, is actively maintaned and has already been successfully used in mini-linux distributions with 64 MB RAM:
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=nanolinux

It would be worth a try to package nano-x and replace X with it. Unfortunately I don't know much yet about building distributions (systemd, packaging, package dependencies, config...) and therefore I wanted to ask if someone has already made experiences with nano-x and what you think about my idea and its feasibility.