my Zaurus SL-C3000 and SL-C3100
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16/09/2007 12:23
Both of these possibilities would be X11 based.
I have decided to build pdaXii13 for my SL-C3000 which is based on the C3000 beta2 but much
more polished. I have fixed all the shortcomings and bugs that annoyed me and now my C3000 has
a real stable and perfectly working distro. See my
pdaXii13 page
on all the enhancements and
features.
The Next Generation Zaurus distro - Linux 2.6 and EABI
There currently is a lot of work being done on creating newer and better distros for the Zaurus
based on the 2.6 kernel. Work on pdaXrom is still ongoing and has progressed to version r198. It
still is full of annoying bugs. OpenZaurus is no more. It has been abandoned in favour of its
successor,
Angstrom
. There has been some progress made in Angstrom which is also based on the
latest 2.6 kernel as well as EABI. It is currently still in an unstable state.
Debian
has also been
revamped and the new version is also using EABI and 2.6 kernel. There is no Debian installer for
Zaurus yet, but it is possible to boot Debian for the Zaurus using a combo of bootloaders and
custom 2.6 kernels. The future for a 2.6 kernel based distro on the Zaurus seems to be either with
Angstrom or Debian which are both build using OpenEmbedded. Binaries compiled for each should
be binary compatible, but library dependencies will be an issue.
pdaXrom customisation:
<--include custom-pdaxrom.html custom -->
pdaXii13 for C3000:
pdaXii13 is a bug fixed and customised version of pdaXrom beta3 which uses the 2.4.20 kernel.
pdaXii13 stands for pdaX integrated and improved beta1 merged with beta3. pdaXii13 was originally
designed and build for the SL-C3000 but can now also be installed on similar Zaurii like the
SL-C3100/SL-C3200 and SL-C1000. The SL-C3000 specific version is called pdaXii13 Spitz (Alice)
while there also is pdaXii13 Akita (Sally) for the other newer clamshell models. An experimental
version of pdaXii13 (charlie) for the older clamshell model also exists. The installation instructions
on this page is focused on the SL-C3000, but there are other sections that describe installation for
other models as well. Most of the customisations done for pdaXii13 can also be applied to all the
other clamshell Zaurii models since they are quite similar in many aspects, but there are also
differences in some areas which is covered later.
pdaXii13 is based on pdaXrom which is a complete X windows environment for the Zaurus. It makes
the SL-C3000 a true mini laptop. However, pdaXrom never officially supported the SL-C3000 due to
its small flash size. pdaXrom beta3 was the last relatively stable release of pdaXrom based on the
2.4.20 kernel, however, it was never finished. The original pdaXii13 was the SL-C3000 specific
version of pdaXrom beta3 with some extra finishing touches. Newer versions of pdaXii13 now also
supports the NAND based sister models of the SL-C3000, namely the SL-C3100/SL-C3200 and
SL-C1000. Support for SL-C8x0 and SL-C7x0 also exist as pdaXii13 Corgi (Charlie). All three
versions, pdaXii13 Spitz (Alice), pdaXii13 Akita (Sally) and pdaXii13 (Charlie) are collectively known
as simply pdaXii13 while pdaXii13 Spitz comes in a base and full edition, and pdaXii13 Akita only
comes as a base edition. pdaXii13 Corgi only comes as an upgrade for pdaXrom beta1 and is
equivalent to pdaXii13 base. pdaXii13 Corgi does not have a flash installer like the other two
editions.
The SL-C3000 was the first Zaurus with an internal MicroDrive released by Sharp. It came with only
