Sharp Zaurus linux in 2025

[tree2025]

Hi all,
Believe Zaurus on Liunx was not as active as years ago, I search around (google) found lots of topic about pdaXrom, some guidelines....etc

Like to know if there is complete guide I can follow to run pdaXrom ? I saw lots of feeds already gone or 404.

The reason behind is, I want to use this little device to play old dos game (Ultima V, ....etc)

thank you in advance and cheers!
Kent

[Varti]

Welcome! PDAXRom is a good choice for the Zaurus, AFAIR it's the only one which allows to overclock the CPU on-the-fly, at least on the SL-Cxx00 models. Thanksfully, the official install guides and FAQs can be still recovered from archive.org:

Installation: https://web.archive.org/web/20071016182436/http://pdaxrom.org/?q=docs/installation
FAQ: https://web.archive.org/web/20071016182505/http://pdaxrom.org/?q=faq

Varti

[InSearchOf]

Its amazing that there is still interest in pdaXrom this many years later...

Late

[Varti]

Hey InSearchOf, glad to see you back! I hope everything is well with you. PdaXRom is IMHO still the best Zaurus ROM in terms of hardware support and has the best GUI for our old little devices, although projects such as VoidZ are more than welcome to bring recent Linux developments to the Zaurus.

What about you? Do you still have any Zaurus, and/or develop anything for it? BTW, it would be really great to have the download links and install guides for pdaXrom back on the pdaxrom.org site, for future reference.

Varti