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« on: January 30, 2004, 09:16:29 pm »
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« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2004, 07:44:56 am »
Very interesting. As far as I know, neither the OpenZaurus nor the Opie team have been officially contacted regarding these \"customizations to the OpenZaurus, Opie, and other open source project code bases that improve usability\". Appreciating patches
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« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2004, 05:36:47 pm »
This sounds cool. OZ seems to be lagging behind anyway.
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« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2004, 06:20:35 pm »
Behind what?
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« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2004, 06:38:48 pm »
This is good news!  The more the merrier!  

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« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2004, 07:41:32 pm »
Is there any indication that the Lycoris ROM will support the 5600? It seems like 5600 owners are stuck with the Sharp ROM, and a lot of FAQs and HOW-TOs give instructions that don\'t apply to the 5600 (though that\'s not always clear until you try to follow them). It would be nice to have a well-supported alternative ROM.
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« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2004, 07:47:17 pm »
I know in the article Lycoris said it would syc with thier OS, I am wondeirng if this will be a Lycoris only thing, I certainly hope not. It just seems it would be a good way to sucker more people into using Lycoris. But I certainly hope that this is not the case.
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« Reply #7 on: February 01, 2004, 06:42:04 am »
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This sounds cool. OZ seems to be lagging behind anyway.

As Mickey said, behind what?

Please give reasons for your conclusion.

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« Reply #8 on: February 01, 2004, 09:42:04 pm »
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It just seems it would be a good way to sucker more people into using Lycoris.

It worked in my case... I just installed Lycoris on an extra box.  Very different than what I\'m used to, but everything seems to work.  Kind of lacks that Linux-like feel.  Their \"Network Browser\" is pretty cool, though.

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But I certainly hope that this is not the case.

So do I.
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« Reply #9 on: February 01, 2004, 11:56:54 pm »
Bleh, I certainly hope that it does not come to that for me I am not much a fan of Lycoris, but hey its not even out yet, I don\'t know why I am complaining so soon hehee.
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« Reply #10 on: February 02, 2004, 12:05:12 am »
I\'m a bit surprized about the name.  I can\'t imagine that this isn\'t a gigantic copyright violation.  I\'m a anti MS as the next guy, but I just totaly fail to see how this could even be anywhere near legal.
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« Reply #11 on: February 02, 2004, 02:27:22 pm »
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This sounds cool. OZ seems to be lagging behind anyway.

As Mickey said, behind what?

Please give reasons for your conclusion.

Si

The only OZ build available for the 5600 is 3.3.5. Its README says \"This particular build is probably not of any use to end users. It is inteded for testing/debug purposes\". I haven\'t even been able to get it to install on my 5600.

From my own selfish point of view, I would say that OZ is lagging behind if it cannot be used by a significant portion of Zaurus owners.

Please not that I realize that it\'s ridiculous to complain about a product provided, for free, by a community of volunteers. I wish I had the skills to help get OZ working on the 5600, but I don\'t.

- Tom, who has yet to register and get a user name
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« Reply #12 on: February 02, 2004, 03:29:40 pm »
That lycoris site has never worked for me? Did they pull the page or what?

And yes OZ doesnt have a fully working image that uses the newer kernel. The testing builds are worthles for any casual user.
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« Reply #13 on: February 02, 2004, 06:26:21 pm »
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That lycoris site has never worked for me? Did they pull the page or what?

And yes OZ doesnt have a fully working image that uses the newer kernel. The testing builds are worthles for any casual user.


I have had the same results and my guess would be yes, they pulled it.  As I said before I can\'t even begin to imagine how on earth this isn\'t a gigantic copyright violation.  I just don\'t see how it would even be possible.

As for OZ, I agree that the testing builds have some problems, but I think calling them \"worthless for any casual user\" is a pretty big overstatement.  3.3.5 and 3.3.6 both installed flawlessly for me and 3.3.6 continues to work with only one major bug, (aside from thenew gcc not working with old apps).

If you don\'t like a particular ROM, that\'s fine, but let\'s not be slanderous either.
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« Reply #14 on: February 02, 2004, 06:43:22 pm »
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it\'s ridiculous to complain about a product provided, for free, by a community of volunteers.

Exactly.

That being said, I\'d define casual user as someone who uses the Z but doesn\'t hack or develop, and to that type of user anything that doesn\'t perform seamlessly and flawlessly is basically worthless.
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