[Gllug] Zaurus and Debian

Xander D Harkness xander at harkness.co.uk
Mon Feb 3 19:12:42 UTC 2003


Richard Cohen wrote:

>On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Xander D Harkness wrote:
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>>On Monday 03 February 2003 14:30, Axel Segebrecht wrote:
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>>>Weeeee I've got a Zaurus =)
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>>Great :-)
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>>I bought the following apps from thekompany.com which generally work well:
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>>jabber, addressbook, editor, explorer, ftp, player and video
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>>The key app for me was player, It is the first portable audio player that
>>I am aware of to support ogg.
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>Not true!
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>*I* was the first to release a portable Ogg (Vorbis) player - ogg123, built
>and packaged for Linux on the iPAQ :-)
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LOL.

I would not buy an IPAQ though as the MS tax on it is unavoidable.  I 
realise at the same time that Compaq do provide a lot of support for 
Linux users; however it is not enough.

Cheers
Xander

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>>video plays with jitter if you have to resize; however if you do rip at
>>320 it you can stick a couple of films on a microdrive :-)
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>>I am waiting for the TKC mail application as imap support is awful in the
>>default application.  It copies all of your mail to its inbox and very
>>rapidly uses all available space.
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>>The main interaction with my desktop is via ssh or mounting an nfs share.
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>>There are a couple of perl scripts on sf.net for syncing evolution with the
>>Zaurus.
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>Cheers
>Richard
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>>Kind regards
>>Xander
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>>>I've been skimming through infos on how to make it work with Debian but
>>>haven't gotten very far (yet).
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>>>I'm wondering who else has experience with Zaurus on Linux (or even
>>>MacOSX)?
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>>>Axel
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