I think my Zaurus C860 has plenty of kick, especially when overclocked (for movies). Back in the day when i last used linux properly, it was on a 200mHz laptop with 32 MB RAM (I occasionally used Knoppix). It ran gnome without a problem, although i much prefered to use ICEWM for the pure speed of it. That was RedHat 6.0... I understand that there is no FPU, but that does not excuse crying about only 64Meg RAM.
From what i see, my Z can have several applications open at once, and it never fills up the RAM. I use it for movie playing, music playing, Hancom Word & Excel. And of course i\'m always looking at System Info whenever i have a moment! ;-)
I only have it a week ago today, so i will of course attempt to do more with it. I want to run Octave (Matlab clone) and a few other things... I came across a small older version of matlab for linux and i will try QEMU with this. I would also like to find a document somewhere telling me how to use SCUMMVM with my Sam & Max, DOTT CD\'s for example.
X/QT seems to work well, I\'ve only used XMMS there so far - i have a problem with no fonts being displayed on the menus... Whoever above was suggesting that the feed for X/QT be developed, I agree fully. I like Cacko 1.21A, it seems to work well with me. I know that X/QT is not an optimised X-server but if all a person is doing is trying to run something like ABIWord, that would hopefully not be an issue.
I understand that PDAXROM is trying to bring pure open source to the Z, and also to provide an optimised X-Server, but according to the posts it seems that it is rather slow due to the lack of FPU and there also seems to be issues playing videos. When these issues are largely addressed, then it is probably the better choice for users, as most applications that you will want to port to the Z will need / take advantage of the optimised X-Server compared to X/QT.
But for NOW, my Most Wanted Applications for Cacko: ABIWORD or something similar(Hancom Word is little more than a text editor, but i like their speadsheet program.) , some kind of game like command & conquer - have been playing the demo of stragetic assult, i like. If anyone has suggestions for these, please post them!
I think another problem is the lack of documentation and feeds, or perhaps more to the point their consolidation into one location. I must confess that although i knew about several feeds, i only recently realised that
www.zaurususergroup.com/feed exists! I think that the projects are too scattered, and that documentation should be gathered in one place, divided into sections for the different ROM\'s. I understand that people like to have their own websites, to publish their own articles there and have people come \'check their place out\'. I think that even having a central document index on the ZUG, with just a link to these sites and a description under the appropriate sections would be beneficial.
Regarding the suggestions to compile the applications ourselves instead of asking, so that they DO exist for us all, what packages are needed to compile source code on the Z under Cacko? Why is libSDL in bits, i.e. that there are so many patched versions around on the ZUG?
BTW, the Cacko team have my appreciation and congratulations on such a good job!
