Sharp Zaurus SL-C3000 Instruction Manual page 159

my Zaurus SL-C3000 and SL-C3100
which can be installed on a PC or Laptop has all the available applications pre-installed by default.
The C3000 and C3100, as well as the C1000 and C3200 share a common feed. In addition, there is
also a generic feed marked as C7x0 feed which is also required. To install more applications, use
the Package Manager and configure the feed locations. The default feed URL pre-configured in the
Package Manager is out of date and should be replaced with the generic (C7x0) and C3x00 specific
feeds. You can also configure local feeds. Just download the feed.tar.gz files and extract the content
to a card or the internal disk. Then point the package manager at the directory containing the feed
contents (eg: file:///home/root/Documents/installs/C3000/feeds).
The following applications were already pre-installed:
SciTE
AbiWord
xpdf
dillo
licq
sylpheed
xchat
xmms
GQview
xdemineu
aterm
galculator
xclock
xircp
xterm
This is quite a good start, but to be really useful, there are a few extra applications and utilities
needed. I have added quite a few packages to make it as functional as a full laptop. See the
pdaXrom customisation section for more details.
So far pdaXrom seems quite fast. It looks very nice also and seems to be more responsive than
Qtopia. I am very impressed with the speed. I can run both quake and quake2 in fullscreen
(320x240 mode). This makes me very happy since Doom2 and Quake2 are my favourite games and
having them run on the Zaurus is just great!
There is also an on-board compiler available for pdaXrom which can be used to compile your own
packages or develop new applications.
There were also a few minor problems I encountered with the C3000 beta2. The boot process is
much cleaner than the Sharp distro and it looks much more like a Linux boot process. Yet, there
were a few small annoying error messages which would had otherwise made it perfect. Those error
messages were easily fixed. The default keyboard mapping is a bit odd for my taste so I customised
it to my liking. Also, the suspend feature seems to be a bit buggy.
Some of the applications from the feeds need to be customised before they can be used effectively.
AbiWord for example, installs with a default screen size that is larger than what the C3000 and
C3100 have (640x480), so you won't see part of the application that extend beyond the screen.
This can be fixed by manually editing the default config files for those apps and changing their
default screen size.
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