Starting to use the Sharp Zaurus [SL]-5500 in May'2005

Well at least someone is running PyThon on one.

• he has a more general MobIle/PyThon page which includes some Zaurus-specific links

• [River Bank] has a memory-friendly python

• [Konrad Hinsen] has some other links

Can't find a Command Line: ah shutdown [QTopia] then hit /a - but when in (this?) command-line the Power button doesn't seem to work.

Wow it's weird to have vi running there.

• the Cancel button acts as Esc. Here are more special characters (control is fn-shift). Some of those don't work in the terminate-qtopia command-line - I'm probably going to have to install a separate Terminal app.

Huh, can't flash the [ROM] to upgrade without a [CF] card. I'll have to check whether I'm running 3.x to get the better memory management.

• dang, not running 3.x

  • there was a change in the PIM format in 3.x so need to make sure that my approach will make sense. The 2.x files are XML.

    • the 3.x files are [DTM]

• hmm, [Open Zaurus] seems to be an alternative to the standard OS. It's not clear to me what you gain with this, but you definitely give up some stuff (the [HanCom] Ms Office clones, the built-in JVM, the Opera browser). It seems targeted at the OS-layer developer/hacker, but I'm more focused up a layer or two...

  • some better justifications. It sounds like the memory allocation can be controlled better on [OZ]. And some like the GUI and its PIM apps better.

• there's also cacko [ROM] which recovers even more memory.

• but not going to worry about this until/unless I find something big

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