[Gllug] Zaurus and Debian

[Richard Cohen]

On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Formi wrote:

>
>
>  Hi Axel,
>
>  is that the SL5500?
>
>  My experiences are not completely good, I don't have many but
>  I have been asked in several occasions to install software on them.
>
>  Mainly network sniffing tools, kismet and the like.
>
>  I have heard the new model has a different processor, which means
>  most apps will have to be ported.

>From what I know from the iPAQ world, this is not the case.  Apps may be
*recompiled* to gain a little extra performance, but any app (excluding the
kernel and similarly low-level things) which runs on a StrongARM should
work, unchanged, on an XScale.

>  And it seems a lot of people have their own development environment
>  and compile instead of looking for pre-packaged apps.
>
>  If you happen to find a working binay package of ethereal or zethereal
>  for the SL5500 please let me know.
>
>  Formi
>  FreeBSD 4.7 ThinkPad 570
>  Linux Registered User #235743

Cheers
Richard

> On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Axel Segebrecht wrote:
>
> > Weeeee I've got a Zaurus =)
> >
> > I've been skimming through infos on how to make it work with Debian but
> > haven't gotten very far (yet).
> >
> > I'm wondering who else has experience with Zaurus on Linux (or even MacOSX)?
> >
> > Axel
> >
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