My New Z6000 - Pls Help Which Os

[antonov]

Hi,

I prowdly got my Z6k  from ebay. It has Qtopia 1.5.4 installed. Shall I change to a later version or Open Zaurus?
Sorry, this is not a new question but I am very uncertain. I do love linux but really need the Z and it is not for playing so I was hoping you could give me a good  hint.

Thanx very much in advande,
Antonov

[adf]

then stay with the sharp qtopia 1.5 rom, if you don't want to play with it.

[antonov]

Thax for the reply (hope it was not ment in sense of "why do you ask if you dont want to change anything") but if there are no majour restrictions and getting OZ would be much playing, I will follow your advice.

A.

[adf]

Oz 3.5.3 is due soon. Use sharp for now, and see how 3.5.3 does on the 6k in the forums. 3.5.3 could be very cool. I'm looking foward to it. At this point, I would not start off w/ 3.5.2, though.

[rickh]

I agree with adf on this.  Spend some time with the Sharp ROM, before you consider switching.  There's really no reason to dump the ROM in favor of another until you find you need something offered in another ROM that's not available in Sharp's.

If it does what you need it to for work purposes, why bother?  If, on the other hand, you DO want to play around with other ROMs, then have at it. :-)

R.
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[antonov]

@rickh @adf: thanx this is what I will do

[technojunkie]

I agree with adk and richk.

Although I use a 5500 I had a similar experience when I bought my 5500. I am competent with linux and thought I could handle any issue I might forsee. I promptly learned that embedded linux is a whole new beast. And after flashing half a dozen ROMS I went back to Sharp until I fully knew what I was doing.

Hindsight being 20/20 I would have stayed with the stock ROM until I knew exactly what I wanted, then I would have looked at other ROMS.

[shurahbil]

I agree with adk and richk.

Although I use a 5500 I had a similar experience when I bought my 5500. I am competent with linux and thought I could handle any issue I might forsee. I promptly learned that embedded linux is a whole new beast. And after flashing half a dozen ROMS I went back to Sharp until I fully knew what I was doing.

Hindsight being 20/20 I would have stayed with the stock ROM until I knew exactly what I wanted, then I would have looked at other ROMS.
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Well, there is a specific problem with my SL6000 that got me considering Cacko: Gmail requires SSL for pop service. I do NOT use my 6000 for playing--it is (believe it or not) my main computer! But having to login to GMail instead of being able to download into QtMail is a real pain. I installed STunnel which, supposedly should allow QtMail to download from GMail--but no luck so far.  Any help?

[adf]

qtopia 2.1 looks viable and pretty straightforward now too