good to hear. I'd have to buy another on before I'd start dev... but I'd need more than 2 users :-D
Late
Hi Late,
it would be good to have a distribution that can run from NAND again, like pdaXrom.
As you know I work on ArchLinuxARM.
It is versatile and very up to date, but is too heavy for running from NAND, but it has huge repo with up to date packages.
Also it lacks C1000 support as I do not have one to develop a kernel and kexecboot for it.
OE/Angstrom still releases automated builds but no one has tested them AFAIK.
Some time ago I thought about spinning a "new" distribution based on Alpine Linux.
Alpine is based on musl and openrc and it would fit on NAND, as it is very memory efficient and similar to Arch in use.
Sadly Alpine has no arm5tel port/repo and it would mean a lot of work, compiling packages, but these could be Zaurus optimized - still a lot of work for just a handful of users.
Do you want to build a new release for pdaXrom from scratch or just update some parts of the latest release ? The gcc3 compilers may be too old to compile new packages.
If you really want to go down that track of reviving pdaXrom, I am happy to test and may even contribute.
Join #ALARMZ on freenode if you like. There are not many Z users left.
Cheers!
