On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 12:25:53PM +0000, Didier Wiroth wrote: > Hello, > I'm planning to buy a zaurus sl-c3200 (the latest zaurus 3xxx model). > I would like to install and run openbsd on it, but I have few concerns. > > I'm an openbsd amateur and don't have any cross compilation > knowledge/experience. > > I had a look at the latest zaurus snapshot directories (on ftp.openbsd.org) > and saw that the choice of available pre-build packages is highly reduced > compared to i386. > > Is it possible to compile and install any applications of the ports tree on a > zaurus (for example firefox, thunderbird ...)? > > Does the ports tree system work as well on a zaurus as on the i386 platforms > or may I encounter severe build problems?
Everything I've tried has worked. That includes Doom. However the zaurus only has 64M RAM and the CPU is wimpy enough (no FPU), so compilation of larger packages takes some time. And just because something compiles does not mean it will be really usable on the little screen and wimpy CPU. I don't think Firefox/Thunderbird is gonna be a happy thing on zaurus. Minimo is pretty bad already. > > Many thx > Didier
