My Collie Zaurus SL-5500 is starting to flake out. It died/corrupted itself a while back. When I reflashed it with Hentges, its root partition was corrupted again before the week was out.
I'm going to try removing its newer OS and reverting to a circa 2004 openzaurus distribution, since all I really need are madplay, a functioning terminal, and JustReader. I really hate the way these new versions of OpenZaurus et al have gotten so bloated that they need to bleed off into the CF/SD cards for basic Qtopia/OPIE system files.
I've seen the PalmOS devices that Tom Bruno and Chris Bier carry around, but the eBook readers on both seem far less functional than JustReader, and the situation seemed to be even worse for PocketPC/WinCE owners when I was trying to hook my dad up with part of my eBook collection in '04-'05. Software issues aside, I've also never seen anything with a screen as large as a Zaurus, although it's been a while since I was really in the market.
Short of hitting the lottery I'm not going to be able to afford a Zaurus SL-6000, and they're discontinued anyway. What's a poor boy to do when all he wants is something to play MP3s and read eBooks on? Is there anything on the market that'll run Qtopia/OPIE-based Linux distributions well?
Thanks, Sean Crago