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 January 4th, 2006
Like you can see in menu howto section was split into language sections. If you want to make translation of something or even have them available and want to share - feel free to contact with us.
Marcin Juszkiewicz January 2nd, 2006
OpenZaurus website is upgraded to WordPress 2.0. I also disabled possibility to register.
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.
OpenZaurus team November 8th, 2005
Our kernel hacker Richard Purdie prepared both a opie-image and gpe-image for Borzoi (aka SL-C3100) for testing. It uses the 2.6.14-git3 kernel from OpenEmbedded repository - a development kernel. Its also built against the development branch and not the release one as it uses several more recent packages.
Download from here and tell us how it works (feed not provided for testing images - only kernel modules will be provided).
UPDATE: You may need to repartition the microdrive to get it working. Borzoi could have a different partition scheme compared to Spitz (SL-C3000) which we based the borzoi image on (lack of borzoi users in OZ team). OpenZaurus boots from first partition on the microdrive and this needs to be fairly large to make things work (say approimately 75MB+). You will need to repartition the microdrive before flashing an image.
Sound: use that script to load kernel modules. We will add autoload for them later.
UPDATE: images were removed - thanks for testing.
Marcin Juszkiewicz November 5th, 2005
Some time ago we released 3.5.4 Release Candidate. It has only images and kernels for testing - no feed provided (software from 3.5.3 can work). Some more infos here, bug raporting into bugtracker please (some stuff can be found also here).
Our 2.4.18 kernels got APM fixes so collie (5000/5500), poodle (5600) and tosa (6000) should now resume properly after suspend.
So if you have some spare time then backup your Zauruses and try 3.5.4-RC - we are waiting for any infos.
Remember to check md5sums before flashing!
Marcin Juszkiewicz October 4th, 2005
Today our website switched to MySQL 4.1 (as have all SourceForge project websites). Now it should work faster.
Richard 'RP' Purdie September 28th, 2005
OpenZaurus is pleased to announce that 2.6 kernels for the C1000 (Akita), C3000 (Spitz) and C3100 (Borzoi) are now extremely usable and nearly fully featured.
In summary, all the above devices should boot and the only missing functionality is Sound, USB Client (USB Host works) and LED support. The current kernel status is (as always) detailed at my website. The remaining functionality should be straightforward to implement and just needs someone to spend time on it.
At this time, it is unknown whether OZ 3.5.4 will ship with a 2.6 kernel as standard. It is likely to be available as an option.