Opie 1.0.0 and 1.0.2

What is my Zaurus for?
Music, e-books, SSH, and web browsing, via wifi or GPRS, but not rally for PIM stuff. I have always wanted to be able to sync with multisync to something like evolution but alas no such luck. In an attempt to get that laptop sync and PIM sharing that I sometimes use I upgraded to the latest Opie that is still available direct. The upgrade is a pain, my network settings app is partly broke and I gained a new pim search and a better audio recorder program, over all the Z seems slower.

Would I bother upgrading again, probably not. Five year old software feeds can't live forever and the Zaurus 5500 is an old platform. After an initial popularity in the USA it faded into obscurity for all but the uber geek. I have heard that even the clamshell line is going out of production in Japan. Even pioneer OpenZaurus folded itself into the Angstrom project after they hacked together an open source SD card driver.

I have archives of the OpenZaurus 3.2 and 3.3.5 release and Opie 10.0. 1.0.2 and 1.0.3 releases as long as my Z works I guess I can mix and match old debian and what is provided in those archives to still shake up my palmtop environment.

I want a new Linux handheld device with a keyboard and lots of hardware and distro options  ¶ 11:25 PM