Re: Question about the GPE

On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 02:18, Barclay William J SSgt 95 RS/LGF wrote:
> I was lucky to come across your web page. I currently own a Sharp Zaurus
> 5500. As you may know the ROM that comes installed with the Zaurus is far
> from being pleasing to the eye. I have looked at the web page (
> http://gpe.handhelds.org/index.shtml <http://gpe.handhelds.org/index.shtml>
> ) and had noticed under download that is stated "Current unstable GPE
> binaries for iPAQ-familiar (in .ipk format)" I use my Zaurus as a PIM and
The only "supported" PDA at the moment is the iPAQ. Not that long ago,
someone mentioned the "openzaurus" project, which aims to replace the
Zaurus' standard ROM with a selection of others. You *could* try to
install a ROM from them and then install X11 and GPE yourself, but you
might have difficulties...

> have no clue as far as computer programming. Could you please point me in
> the right direction to download your GPE ROM.
>
> >From the screen shots your software looks amazing compared to the standard
> ROM that comes installed on the Zaurus.
Yes, it does look amazing :-D
To give it it's due, OPIE (I don't know the URL, check
http://handhelds.org) looks pretty snazzy too. OPIE is descended from
the same software as is already on the Zaurus, GPE is totally seperate.

GPE isn't yet available for the Zaurus AFAIK, but hopefully will be
soon! (It seems to be an FAQ of late!)

Note that GPE may not support everything you want/need in a PDA (eg.
syncing with a PC). Also, I don't know if there are any conversion tools
to go from Qtopia (what's on the Zaurus by default) and GPE...

A quick search on google shows:
http://openzaurus.sourceforge.net/
as the place to look.

You may even suit your eyecandy desires by installing a ROM using OPIE
from the openzaurus page[0]; though of course don't forget to back
EVERYTHING up ;)

> Thank you very much.
I hope I helped, good luck!

> Will
mibus

[0] Yeah yeah I know suggesting someone use a 'competitor'[1] is
sacreligious ;-)
[1] Yeah yeah I know we're not 'competing' ;)

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Robert Mibus <mibus@bigpond.com>
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