Howdy all,
Just thought I'd say Hi before I get to all the annoying newbie questions...
Awaiting delivery of a 5500 and just wanted to ask what Rom would everyone recommend for a total newb on his first install (figure I may as well try to get it right the first time).
I'm not great on specs and statistics (don't really have the background to understand them), so I'm not real clear on the differences between the various packages out there. I did a search of the site, but didn't understand a lot of what I read...
Looking for something user-friendly. I plan to use my Zaurus for office type applications, Japanese language study, ebooks and let my kids watch movies on long car rides.
I can generally get everything to work - sort of - if I fiddle long enough in a GUI environment, but I'm totally lost if there's any coding or command line stuff required. So, I'm hoping for stuff I can install from a GUI without having to tweak it.
So, please everyone, any tips, user friendly software recommendations for the sort of stuff I want to do, useful links for newbs or whatever would be greatly appreciated
Thank you all (Cheers from Westen Japan).
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You'll probably get a lot of different opinions on which rom is the best and there will be a large element of truth to most, if not all of them.
Before I got my Z, I was uncomfortable with a command line, even though I had been using Linux on my desktop off and on, for quite a while. I still shy away from command lines for everyday use, but from learning to tweak the Z, and installing a few different, "home on SD," configurations, which required some simple command line stuff and a shell script to tweak the speed. I have become slightly more comfortable with a terminal and find myself using it more and more when necessary and the more I learn, the more necessary it seemingly becomes (if you have a hammer, everything starts looking like a nail eh?). Besides, I have to go ther to play Zork anyway.
Anyway, I have been trying various roms and keep returning to tKc (at present with Maslovsky's kernal update and home on SD), as it seems to recover from crashes perfectly intact and the backup restore works really well, even after a hard reset. The GUI package mananger is easy to use also, which is what attracted me to it in the first place, because I had so much trouble with OPIE's package manager and wasn't sure at the time how to install from the command line. That is also a lot easier than I though it would be. the downside is that it seems no one is going to update it anymore. I may eventually go back to Cacko Crow, because of that.
KOPI is an awesome alternative PIM and you can get the same prog for your desktop.
For ebooks, OPIE Reader or Just reader would be my pick.
Not too much choice on Word processors or spreadsheets, Hancom is it, unless you want to shell out some bucks and that will only give you one more alternative (Textmaker) for WP and OPIE's spreadsheet prog.
I use tKc video for movies, but have only tried one other, the stock Sharp player.
Can't help you with the Japanese. I'm having my own language problems.I need a good Dutch to English dictionary or tutorial.
