Hi,
I got a Zaurus only for one reason: It runs linux and there seems to be an active developers and users community. I knew I needed some time on my hand to get it all working, a used Japanese Linux PDA ist not comparable with a localized vendor-supported Win/Apple/whatever device, but it's getting frustrating.
After quite some hassle (partitioning and update.sh) I finally got OZ/OPIE running. It works with WLAN and all as long as you don't touch it, but
1. Installing packages with GUI package manager is near impossible. Usually there are either ipkg errors (such as downloading fails) or the package manager will segfault. I don't think I ran out of memory, got 64MiB. System Infos shows Memory usage slightly above 50% while installing. I can install with 'ipkg install foo'. (This is not easily reproducable; after reboot, things are likely to work better.) Maybe I should file a bug against the package-manager but I don't know all the info that should go into a good bug report (like how ti reproduce).
2. I had to reboot (by removing batteries) my Z quite often to "solve" problems: Last time, the screen just went white while I was using qpe-gaim. Whatever I did (keyboard, touch screen), the screen stayed white, the backlight brightness changes. What is that?
edit: 3. qpe-gaim segfaults from time to time. This time after the segfault messae box appeared, OPIE crashed (could not even FN+left arrow)
Except for those issues which I hope to solve, I decided for OZ because I want:
1. a solid stable base system
2. many apps (but adapted for Z screen size)
3. platform to develop for/on
4. an upgrade path (keep data when migrating to a newer version)
Is OZ/current good for me? Is there something like 'debian stable' (older but well-tested)?
