mickeyl April 30th, 2005
I’m proud to present OpenZaurus 3.5.3/Opie for the Sharp SL-C1000 (Akita) and Sharp SL-C3000 (Spitz) devices. Special thanks go to the OZ developers Jose Bernado Silva and Jonathan ‘Noodles’ McDowell who were leading the Akita (C1000) and Spitz (C3000) porting efforts.
See the CXK specific ReleaseNotes
Cheers,
Michael ‘Mickey’ Lauer OZ 3.5.3 ReleaseMeister
Marcin Juszkiewicz April 28th, 2005
Recently we got many users registered - thats great. They want to contribute to the OZ project and I want to say that documentation would be a good way to help out.
On OESF forum we have dedicated subforum where few threads started to get some docs collected:
Many users complain that installation guides are not good, that they lack some infos etc - we need someone who will look more into them and atleast reformat them to look similiar (instruction for 5600 is nice formatted).
Marcin Juszkiewicz April 27th, 2005
Opie-wellenreiter was pushed into “upgrades” feed. This version will work with OZ 3.5.3 kernels without warnings. Patch was taken from OPIE CVS by Paul Eggleton (Familiar distribution).
Marcin Juszkiewicz April 23rd, 2005
Many users complain about missing libqte2 or libqpe1 packages. Thats because we build images before feed was split.
So edit your /etc/ipkg.conf and add one of those lines (choose the one for your Zaurus):
src/gz machine http://www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/machine/collie src/gz machine http://www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/machine/poodle src/gz machine http://www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/machine/c7x0 src/gz machine http://www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/machine/tosa
And update list of packages by using package manager function.
Marcin Juszkiewicz April 21st, 2005
There is a bug in systems which run 2.6 kernel. First udev is started and then /dev/ is filled with many not needed entries by “devices” script (which is needed under 2.4). The fix is:
cd /etc/rcS.d mv S03udev S06udev
After restart /dev/ directory will show only needed entries.
warning - some users reported problems with GPE and SD after it (OPIE works without problems)
Marcin Juszkiewicz April 19th, 2005
Many users complain that fetching from OpenZaurus.org is slow. When writing about 3.5.3 release we forgot to mention mirrors.
Mirrors are: * http://oz.hentges.net/mirror/oz3.5.3/ provided by CoreDump * http://oz.pdai.org
Marcin Juszkiewicz April 16th, 2005
As you can see we moved our website to Wordpress. One of most important reason is that previous version was hard to navigate - searching for content was taking many clicks, nearly noone wanted to help with writing content etc.
And as Wordpress is “blog engine” we (OZ developers) will try to inform you (users) more often what is happening between releases, what on we are working now etc.
If you want to help us with content of website then please register and we will send you password and give access to service. Let it be more users friendly service then it was before.
mickeyl April 13th, 2005
On behalf of the OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus, Opie and GPE teams, I am proud to present to you the third OpenZaurus release based on the BitBake build system and the OpenEmbedded metadata repository. Continue Reading »