Quality Team For OZ

[catachresis]

I\'d like to participate in this collaboration too, if there\'s anything I can do to contribute.

I\'m apprehensive that I\'d be of limited use, as I\'m just getting my SL5600 and have only begun to learn Linux.
But I\'ve got long-standing Windows experience and reasonably good writing and editorial skills.
If someone would respond to this (positively or negatively) I\'d either try to contact one of you and stay in the loop, or go off and get some more foundational knowledge before checking-in again.  Thanks.

[lardman]

I think you would be able to make a valid contribution, exactly because you\'re just starting out, so you should be able to note down what got you stuck as it happens (I\'m starting to forget how difficult things were when I started out, even though it wasn\'t actually that long ago).

I presume that you\'ll not be jumping straight in at the deep end and trying to get OE up and running (though by all means do so, it\'s not that difficult), but certainly documenting/making comment on everyday use of OZ would be good.

The main trouble you might have is that OZ on the 5600 is unstable, though I don\'t think it\'s as unstable as some people make it out to be. So you may be straight in there having to report (and fix?) bugs.


Simon

[catachresis]

Thanks so much, Simon (lardman) for responding promptly.  I think you\'re right: moreover, another benefit of being utterly new to an OS is that you don\'t have a frame of reference for the effort -- i.e. everything seems like a chore.  So if I get bogged down, I\'ll just assume that this is the way it always goes.

I\'ve seen that the newest release of OZ is \"poodle\" but I\'ve already heard that the howto printed at the OZ site is specifically designed for the sl5500.  If you could point me to a linked howto for installing OZ on the sl5600, it would be tremendously helpful.  I could even start imagining a verbose howto for the similarly green.  Thanks!

[lardman]

Poodle is a reference to the hardware rather than the release, so all ROMs for the 5600 will be refered to as being for the \'poodle\'. In much the same way the 5500/5000d is a \'collie\'. There are others, and probably a list somewhere too.

I don\'t know of a HowTo off the top of my head (I\'ve never need one with a 5500), hopefully someone else will know of one.


Si

[Pyrates]

catachresis, check http://openembedded.org/oe_wiki/index.php/...dleInstallGuide ...

cheers
Philipp

[catachresis]

Many thanks Pyrates & Lardman.  Cheers - I hope I find a place in the ZUG scene.