Friday, March 05, 2004

I've compiled V1.33 of Chicken Scheme for the Zaurus running the pdaxrom. You can download chicken_1.33_arm.ipk here. It is approximately 7.5MB in size. Once installed using qpkg or ipkg, run 'chicken-setup' to set things up then use the Chicken Scheme interpreter command 'csi' to run it. 9:28:34 PM

I installed the pdaxrom on my Zaurus last night. It is significantly faster than the previous Cacko X11 ROM. I'm very impressed with the speed. Even Mozilla Firefox is usable. My wireless card wasn't supported from the install (Buffalo Airstation) but the pcmcia patch from the IPKG feed added support. The pdaxrom is even closer to a 'real' Linux compared to the previous version, with a more standard directory structure, and the ability to exit from X11 to console and back. The default user interface is a bit ugly (It uses Matchbox) but that's configurable from what I understand. 4:02:44 PM