RELEASE: Gentoo For Zaurus 0.2.1

[Anonymous]

Statically build binaries are great because it removes dependencies.  However, on a very limitted system such as the zaurus, dynamically linked libraries can be a huge plus.  With dynamically linked binaries, you can cram more applications in the same space as statically linked ones.

[Anonymous]

I have a couple rally stupid questions. I don\'t have a Z yet, but plan on buying a 5600 in a week or 2. But I want to understand how this works. The howto doesn\'t tell you to actually move anything to the Zaurus, and it seems as though it\'s all done over NFS. so does the Zaurus actually have gentoo on it at all? or is it just running gentoo through a chrooted NFS?
Can it be put onto a storage card?

Another stupid question: Can software be compiled right on the Zaurus without distcc, or is distcc required? this doesn\'t necessarily only mean for gentooZaurus but any Z software.

Thanks and sorry for the dumb Q\'s, I\'m just a bit confused.

[lekter]

Hi,
First Question: Gentoo For Zaurus works OK on a storage card. This way, everything will go faster, but you will have more space limitations.

Second question: Of course, software can be compiled without distcc (but this will be slow). By the way, some packages refuse to build using distcc (due to some distcc bugs).