I will try to answer your questions as soon as possible... but if you want to use vmplayer, under a seperate OS to do compiling because you dont want to spare a pc... why can't you just just use vmplayer an boot off the cd?
I'm not sash or laze but I believe this was done to elimated a lot of questions being asked prior about things not working... it is was all due to files the user was missing... and or operating system incompatibilities... Yes, I did ask the question before about it, and I believe that is what the dev's were trying to accomplish...
But as I said earlier, Myself, Sash and Laze (and others willing to help) are working on getting all the bugs out of the system and also updating the documentation...
Give us a little bit and we will try and step it up a little bit...
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First my apologize, I was really tired tonight and my post was more bitter than what I felt in reallity. I know you are not laze or sash and this was not against you as you was the only one how dare answering my b121 bugs questions in the bugtracker (by the way, the host cable trick works perfectly).
About VMWare, openZaurus, as far as I know do the same job as pdaX86 but in a "simple" linux env. Using vmware eat resources whatever you do, at least memory. And that's in my opinion a waste of time dealing with wrong keyboard layout, installing missing softwares, etc... But why not if it was just working ou of the box (if this this the target of this so special distribution), but it is not...
Has I tried to explain (but my english is far from perfect and lack nuances) I really appreciate the work on pdaXrom, I'm using it for 2 years now on an everyday base. I seen work and evolution from the first RC I tried. But as a user that don't want to step back (kind of free software philosphy I think), I'm just getting frustrated not knowing what's going on. I made a lot documentation for Zaurus (in french, sorry and 2/3 of it is only for pdaXrom. But I'm at a point that I just can go further with so few documentation, and most important, more informations and news, etc... And I think what really upseted me is to discover that all posts sent in bugtracker just deseapered overnight with no explanation (I leaved a message asking why but no answer). That is feedback illusion.
Just an other example, you say you are working on bugs, and improving this or that. But do you imagine the double work done by users if they don't know exactly what is in the pipe ? We try to add whatever application, having hard time to compile it and discover that, finally, it is now included in the next beta, waste of time. I wanted to fix the usb module trying to make usb storage gadjet working (at least try ;-) but perhaps I'll discover tomorrow that the new beta is already solving this issue, waste of time again.
So my post was too bitter but my frustration, is real even if I really appreciate all the work to make this distrib. Perphaps it is more frustration just because of that ;-)
