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Zaurus - Void Linux support / Re: Void Linux Packages

« on: March 19, 2025, 06:26:33 am »

I have forwarded the news on three subreddits, let's see if we get any feedback there:

https://www.reddit.com/r/OldHandhelds/comments/1jetqqa/new_release_of_void_linux_for_sharp_zaurus/
https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/1jetrhy/new_release_of_void_linux_for_sharp_zaurus/
https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/1jetrye/new_release_of_void_linux_for_sharp_zaurus/

Varti

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Zaurus - Hardware discussion / Re: Zaurus C1000, C3000, components datasheet?

« on: March 17, 2025, 05:18:22 pm »

From what I have read in a couple of older posts here, no service manual has even been released for any Zaurus SL model, unfortunately:

https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?topic=23469.msg156189#msg156189
https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=14114

I have done a Google search in both english and japanese (by searching for zaurus 回路図 = schematics and サービスマニュアル = service manuals), they seem to not have been released recently, too. Sharp has only released some HW infos on the earliest models, though no schematics: http://support.ezaurus.com/developer/doc/hardware.asp

I have searched in my local copies of the forum and the old ELSI webpage, too, to no avail.
I hope to be able to put back the old Zaurus wiki online soon, maybe there could be some info about this. It would be also interesting to get in touch with some old Sharp employee or official Sharp repairing services which might have a copy of the manuals, we can host them here.

BTW, not related, but I have found some hires scans of Zaurus related pamphlets and catalogs here: https://galapagosstore.com/web/book/search/result?sw=zaurus&res=false

Varti

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Zaurus - Void Linux support / Re: Void Linux Packages

« on: March 17, 2025, 01:50:06 pm »

This is great news, I really missed these announcements  thanks greguu!

Varti

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Astro Slide - Hardware / Re: changed my battery now with video

« on: December 13, 2024, 04:15:06 am »

Hi, that's a very interesting solution for the battery problem, thanks for sharing it! Regarding the attachments issue, we are currently working on it to fix it, sorry for the inconvenience.

Varti

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Site Suggestions, Requests, and Updates / Re: Forum outage

« on: November 30, 2024, 12:10:58 pm »

Hi all,

regarding yesterday's outage, this is what our host has published today in the support's forum:

"On Thursday the 28th of November 2024 (the Thanksgiving holiday here) in the afternoon, our Domain Registrar suspended our domain due to a false positive in one of their systems. Because of communications complications involving the holiday, it took us more than 18 hours to reinstate the domain. The vast majority of ibiblio-supported sites and service have been impacted. We are still working to resolve the lingering effects and plan future steps to avoid a recurrence of this problem."

Everything is now back to normal, thanks for your patience.

Varti

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Re: Contrib feed hosted on ibiblio is giving a 404

« on: October 07, 2024, 06:12:00 am »

Regarding the install guide, there are a quick and a step-by-step one on the old PdaXRom site:

https://web.archive.org/web/20071016182436/http://pdaxrom.org/?q=docs/installation

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Re: Contrib feed hosted on ibiblio is giving a 404

« on: October 07, 2024, 03:43:57 am »

All the PdaXRom installers are thankfully still online:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pdaxrom/

I have made a bit of research on the contrib/ folder, for some reason there's an index.html at http://distro.ibiblio.org/pdaxrom/download/contrib/ which redirects to http://distro.ibiblio.org/community, which doesn't exist. All the folders in the directory path below it are still there though. There are two older index files which don't have the complete contributions folders list, but still have some useful infos:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pdaxrom/download/contrib/oldindex.html
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pdaxrom/download/contrib/index.htm

Here's a (hopefully) complete list of the folders:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pdaxrom/download/contrib/1.1.0beta3/
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pdaxrom/download/contrib/anunakin/
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pdaxrom/download/contrib/armagon/
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pdaxrom/download/contrib/Civil/
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pdaxrom/download/contrib/daal/
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pdaxrom/download/contrib/desertrat/
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pdaxrom/download/contrib/docs/
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pdaxrom/download/contrib/humit/
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pdaxrom/download/contrib/iamphet/
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pdaxrom/download/contrib/jabbath/
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pdaxrom/download/contrib/merli/
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pdaxrom/download/contrib/notes/
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pdaxrom/download/contrib/pgas/
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pdaxrom/download/contrib/pungipungi/
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pdaxrom/download/contrib/rc11+-armv5tel/
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pdaxrom/download/contrib/rc5+-armv5tel/ (empty)
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pdaxrom/download/contrib/rgrep/
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pdaxrom/download/contrib/shmigol/
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pdaxrom/download/contrib/tmp/
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pdaxrom/download/contrib/voider/ (which seems to contain a tgzipped copy of voider_feed/)
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pdaxrom/download/contrib/voider_feed/
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pdaxrom/download/contrib/Xromer/
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pdaxrom/download/contrib/Zaurus-5000D-5500/

I have managed to compile this list since there's a complete mirror of the pdaxrom distro on ibiblio here:
http://ftp.nluug.nl/ibiblio/distributions/pdaxrom/
and here (FTP only):
ftp://ftp.nl.freebsd.org/vol/2/metalab/distributions/pdaxrom/

I'll get on touch with the server's owner, or in alternative with ibiblio themselves to get this sorted out.

Varti

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Zaurus - Other distros support / Re: Linux kernel version 6 support

« on: August 08, 2024, 10:40:43 am »

You can rest assured that you have my support    I have posted on some Reddit subforums (r/RetroBattleStations, r/Zaurus, r/VintageComputing, r/OldHandhelds) to see if there's any VoidZ user around, and if there's any interested there on a new kernel release.

EDIT: link to the threads:
https://www.reddit.com/r/OldHandhelds/comments/1en7d9q/linux_kernel_6x_for_sharp_zaurus_slcxx00_pdas/
https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/1enajny/linux_kernel_6x_for_sharp_zaurus_slcxx00_pdas/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Zaurus/comments/1en7h66/linux_kernel_6x_for_sharp_zaurus_slcxx00_pdas/
https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/1en7ewr/linux_kernel_6x_for_sharp_zaurus_slcxx00_pdas/

Varti

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Gemini PDA - Android / Re: My Gemini is getting to its limits

« on: August 05, 2024, 04:20:15 am »

If this might help you, I have the same problem installing Instagram on my Android 10 phone, Play Store says that my phone is not compatible, but doesn't state what version of Android it requires. I have solved this by installing Instagram via Aptoide.
It would be great to have a port of the latest LineageOS release on all the 3 Planet devices, I hope someday we'll see that released.
Personally, my Gemini has not been working well since more than a year, I'm now thinking to switch to a GPD Micro PC + my current phone, although I'll dearly miss my Gemini's keyboard.

Varti

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Cosmo Communicator - General Discussion / Are new Cosmos/Geminis still available on Planet's webshop?

« on: July 02, 2024, 07:46:30 am »

Planet still lists the Cosmo and the Wifi-only Gemini as available on their webshop:

https://store.planetcom.co.uk/products/cosmo-communicator
https://store.planetcom.co.uk/products/gemini-pda-wifi-only

Has anybody recently bought any of them, or knows if they are still accepting orders?

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Zaurus - Other distros support / Re: pp4zaurus

« on: April 24, 2024, 05:04:46 am »

Got my post approved after I have been made moderator of r/Zaurus , heh

https://www.reddit.com/r/Zaurus/comments/1cbta39/does_anybody_have_a_copy_of_pp4zaurus_j2me/

On a side note, a complete mirror of Meanie's feed would be also great to find, too bad I didn't mirror it myself back in the days.

EDIT: I have tried to send an email to Meanie, I have probably found a working email address of his, fingers crossed.

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Zaurus - Other distros support / Re: pp4zaurus

« on: April 24, 2024, 03:51:58 am »

I have checked at home in my personal archives but I have not found it. I'll see if I'll find the other file you mentioned, I see it was the actual package inside the .zip file. In the meantime I have tried to ask support on the www.java.com site (though I highly doubt they'll still have the archive) and tried to add a comment in these two old blogs, maybe we'll be lucky and they still have a copy of it, though I'm not sure my comments have passed through...

http://slzaurus.seesaa.net/article/20446868.html
https://sewig.jp/diary/?date=20050829

I have also tried to ask on Reddit, there still seem to be a couple of users lurking there, though my post is being rejected by Reddit's antispam filter, I have sent a message to the mods:
https://www.reddit.com/r/zaurus/

Varti

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Zaurus - Other distros support / Re: pp4zaurus

« on: April 22, 2024, 08:09:08 am »

I have also done a search on archive.org, hoping that for one of the multiple redirections there would be a backup, from a different date, to an actual page, but to no avail. I have checked among all the attachments here too, no one has ever uploaded it here. I'll search through my archives this evening and let you know.

Is this required by some program you're attempting to run?

Varti

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Gemini PDA - Sailfish OS / Re: Sailfish Ending Kernel 3.x Support / Sauna 4.6.0 Release Last for Gemini PDA

« on: April 18, 2024, 07:29:23 am »

Thanks for forwarding this news. Sad to see Sailfish support to be ended, but it's understandable given the Gemini's age (it's been already 6 years!).

Varti

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General Discussion / Hrw recalls his 20 years of work on the Arm architecture

« on: March 12, 2024, 10:31:42 am »

https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2024/02/12/twenty-years-of-my-work-with-arm-architecture/

Hrw was OpenZaurus' release manager and a prolific poster on OESF. His work on Arm started when he bought a SL-5500.

I hope to see him logging here someday again to say hello, and wishing him many years of prolific work and fun on Arm platforms!

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