law February 23rd, 2006
We are searching for a new logo, bootsplash-images and backgrounds. So we decided to start a graphics contest.
We split the Contest into 3 main parts:
Logo
The logo should stay in combination with the zaurus and open-source. We would like to use that logo on website. 224 colors version would be nice bonus for usage as kernel booting logo.
Bootsplash
Two different orientations of the logo should be created: a landscape one and a portait one. SVG templates are available from the following links:
landscape portrait
Background
It would be nice if the same background could be used on all devices, so different sizes are needed. Sending one size is allowed - other sizes can be created after contest.
Needed sizes:
- 640×640 for VGA devices
- 640×480 for VGA landscape
- 480×640 for VGA portait
- 240×320 for QVGA portrait
320×240 for QVGA landscape will be nice but not required
Mail your images to openzaurus-users mailing list .
Rules
Graphics should stay in combination with the Zaurus and OpenSource.
Allowed formats: SVG, XCF or PNG.
Graphics should be provided on any OSI approved license (GPL/LGPL/BSD are one of them).
Deadline: 1st April 2006.
Marcin Juszkiewicz February 16th, 2006
Two weeks ago developer of Watapon ROM decided to stop its development. It was the only one distribution made specially for poodle (SL-5600) machines.
In OpenZaurus team we are unable to help poodle users due to lack of hardware (no device) and/or lack of developer with that Zaurus model. We release images which are expected to work because it does not take much time but sooner or later it could finish in abadonland…
Week ago few poodle users started thread on OESF forum about getting poodle machine for OpenZaurus team. Anyone can help - if you are user (or developer) then you can help with testing images, you can donate cash (or machine)…
When we get poodle we first work on getting current 2.4 based images works as they should, then device will be used to help with 2.6 kernel support (currently it should have SD/MMC, CF, USB working (and probably more) with small tweaks if not out-of-box).
Richard 'RP' Purdie January 9th, 2006
Some information about keymaps on 2.6 kernels has been created at:
http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/howto/c7×0-and-cxx00-26-kernel-information/
In due course, further information about using 2.6 kernels may get added to this page.
Marcin Juszkiewicz January 9th, 2006
OpenZaurus 3.5.4 will be build by Michael ‘Mickeyl’ Lauer when we resolve all build problems. Decision who will be Release Manager are nearly taken and it looks like I (Marcin ‘Hrw’ Juszkiewicz) will be that person.
Current plans:
- build bootstrap/opie/gpe images for all machines
- test images on several machines
- build ‘world’ and prepare feeds
- build any extra images (xfce, e17 for example)
For testing I need voluntaries as I have only collie (sl-5500) and husky (c760) available. Such people will get access to images from 2. point but will need to provide bugreports with info what is not working (fixes welcome ofcourse). If some bugs will get fixed then new images could be created.
Decision about images other then bootstrap/opie/gpe is not yet taken - probably they won’t be released as they are not wide tested.
OpenZaurus 3.5.4 will be released with 2.4.20 kernel for SL-Cxx00 machines. After release we will prepare another release for clamshell devices (c7×0 and cxx00). This will be named 3.5.4.1 and will contain 2.6.15 kernel with ALSA sound.
UPDATE: Many people wonder why at all we are going to release OpenZaurus 3.5.4 with 2.4.20 kernel for Cxx00 instead of going to 2.6 for it. The main reason is that 2.6 support is not widely tested yet - we know that it works on spitz (sl-c3000) or borzoi (sl-c3100) but it was not so tested on akita (sl-c1000). And users have more SD/CF cards and other stuff then we can test for working.
UPDATE: Due to lot of problems with 2.4.20 on cxx00 machines we decided to not release 3.5.4 for those machines. It does not makes sense to release 3.5.4 with crappy cxx00 support and then lose again our reputation before some weeks later we could have 3.5.4.1 with proper cxx00 support.
Marcin Juszkiewicz December 21st, 2005
Few days ago Dropbear author released 0.47 version and security fix for older versions. Today I added fixed dropbear 0.45-r2 into ‘upgrades’ feed on our main mirror.
Upgrade is recommended.
Upstream note:
This release also fixes a potential security issue, which may allow authenticated users to run arbitrary code as the server user. I’m unsure exactly how likely it is to be exploitable, but anyone who’s running a multi-user server is advised to upgrade.
Marcin Juszkiewicz December 1st, 2005
From time to time I have to moderate comments and during that I notice that many users use comments system instead of bugtrackers. This way we will lose many errors or fixes because time which we have to spend on checking all source where users complain result in less time used for bugfixing, developing.
If you flashed OpenZaurus and something does not work then report it in OpenEmbedded bugtracker with info which machine you have, which distro, which flavour of distro (opie/gpe/bootstrap) and how you find bug, is it reproductable etc. Too much info is better then too less.
You do not have to be a developer to report but if you find a bug and not report it then do not complain about it.
OpenZaurus team November 15th, 2005
As many of you noticed openzaurus.org is slow. Few days a go mirror was created here - it should be much faster.
In next few days it will be main feed location as we have to free space on SourceForge server.
