Re: What Zaurus should I buy?

"Justin Patrin" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.openzaurus.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 7/24/06, Silva, Russell <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi everyone,
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> I'm looking for the right Zaurus to buy.  I'm not going to use it as a PDA
> in any conventional sense; the only purpose of the purchase is to prototype
> software on it.  My wish list includes:
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> -the ability to try both 2.6 and 2.4 kernels
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Only the collie has not had a stable 2.6 kernel in OZ (well, the
poodle is just getting stable). We don't support both kernels for one
device, however. We have moved to 2.6 and basically dropped 2.4
support for devices with a stable 2.6 kernel.

That said, you could always use an older version of OE (our metadata)
to get 2.4 kernel support but everything is going to be older.

> -compact flash slot with known compatibility with compact flash wifi cards
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Any zaurus has this.

> -as much community/OpenZaurus developer experience as possible; an older,
> better understood device would be preferable to a more powerful, newer, less
> understood one.
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The only thing that would satisfy all of the above (assuming you mean
years of experience) is the poodle. Then again, the devs haven't had
many of these around until lately and it wasn't really fully
supported. The 2.6 kernel is just going stable now.

I would suggest a spitz myself. It's fairly new but has a 2.6 kernel
and is well supported.

-- 
Justin Patrin

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