Re: Small root
* Tony Godshall (togo@of.net) wrote:
> According to Klaus Weidner,
> > On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 03:02:11PM -0700, randy none wrote:
> > > Would it be possible to install a small zaurus rom
> > > like crow or openzaurus without opie or qpe?
> > >
> > > This way the rom space could be saved to share with
> > > the chroot, which would also be very small. This may
> > > allow the zeroinstall system
> > > http://zero-install.sourceforge.net/
> > > for Rox.
> > >
> > > Different users for different applications?
> > >
> > > I am interested in speeding up package managment
> > > without using a sd or mmc card and retaining the
> > > wireless cf slot.
> >
> > That certainly appears possible, but it's a fairly significant amount of
> > work to maintain a ROM, and I'm not sure if it's a good idea to add yet
> > another one.
> >
> > What might make more sense would be to reuse the OZ/handhelds.org build
> > process and just build those components you need, and if it's not minimal
> > enough for your application to work with them to help make it more
> > generic.
>
> I'm also interested in this but I'm not sure how to get
> started.
Hop over to http://handhelds.org/. Subscribe to the 'oe' mailing list.
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Currently we have over 800 buildable packages in the primary package
repository.
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Linux Software Systems Engineer - clarson at ti dot com
OpenZaurus Project Maintainer - http://openzaurus.org/
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