Re: to zaurus or not to zaurus

2007-08-28 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/08/25 00:04, Nick Guenther wrote: On 8/24/07, frantisek holop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am planning to go on a longer trip and i am considering buying a sub-sub-sub notebookish thingie... i know openbsd support zaurus quite well, and i have found a promising sale of a C3200

Re: to zaurus or not to zaurus

2007-08-25 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 12:04:29AM -0400, Nick Guenther said that The battery life is 7 hours (12 if you pull magic hax of making the screen turn off when not in use and compulsively put it in standby most of the time) and a lot less with a wifi card in. 7h is not that bad compared to a

Re: to zaurus or not to zaurus

2007-08-25 Thread Nick Guenther
On 8/25/07, frantisek holop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmm, on Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 12:04:29AM -0400, Nick Guenther said that The battery life is 7 hours (12 if you pull magic hax of making the screen turn off when not in use and compulsively put it in standby most of the time) and a lot less

Re: to zaurus or not to zaurus

2007-08-25 Thread Kevin Stam
The default system can run graphics adequately. So can pdaXrom, and OpenZaurus/Angstrom, or the Cacko ROM. These OS's burden the Zaurus less then OpenBSD does. There are ways to improve speed, however.d If you're expecting to run KDE or GNOME with 10 open windows, good luck with that. If you use

to zaurus or not to zaurus

2007-08-24 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, i am planning to go on a longer trip and i am considering buying a sub-sub-sub notebookish thingie... i know openbsd support zaurus quite well, and i have found a promising sale of a C3200 for around 500 euros... the things is, it's surprisingly hard (for me) to find any details about

Re: to zaurus or not to zaurus

2007-08-24 Thread Nick Guenther
On 8/24/07, frantisek holop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi there, i am planning to go on a longer trip and i am considering buying a sub-sub-sub notebookish thingie... i know openbsd support zaurus quite well, and i have found a promising sale of a C3200 for around 500 euros... the things