Author Topic: On the X11 fence  (Read 2253 times)

borisbob

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On the X11 fence
« on: September 05, 2004, 10:12:26 am »
Hi,

I'm currently using Cacko 1.21b on my C760 and loving it (Thanks PDAX11 folks!).

Some question please:

1. What would I gain in moving to the X11 ROM besides the coolness factor ?

2. Will I need to reinstall and reconfigure again all my apps and config files after the X11 flash (GAIM, Kismet, wlan, ethernet and bluetooth setups) ?

I used to write in Motif for X11 back in college and have warm memories, not sure I'll go back to it again though ;-)

Thanks
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alan

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« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2004, 01:57:33 pm »
hi!

I used to run Cacko too, and i moved to pdaxrom a faw monthes ago. I'm just a basic user, so my experience may not be the most infornaticve one but it's an interesting point of view.

1° 1. What would you gain in moving to the X11 ROM besides the coolness factor ?

* Some interesting apps (Abiword is my favorite one). In my opinion, pdaxrom makes your Zaurus kind of a mini laptop as you can use on it any application if you know how to cross compile this application.

* More tweaking. Lots of apps are customisable (fvwm is a gooooooooooood exemple).

* More headache  as if you want an application not available on the official feed, google or ZSI will 4 times on 5 lead you to an incompatible application. Depending on your experience skill, help is often needed...

2. Will I need to reinstall and reconfigure again all my apps and config files after the X11 flash (GAIM, Kismet, wlan, ethernet and bluetooth setups) ?

* I think so. Lots of things are different under pdaxrom. Yet, maybe backing up you config files (for GAIM and Kismet) will work, i don't know. But for network settings, i'm quite sure  you will have to set averithing up once more.

I hope this helped you.

Cheers.

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« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2004, 07:56:05 pm »
If you only want to run a few X apps and are happy with what the cacko rom currently offers you can run X/Qt  - whicj allows you to run X apps within cacko

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