Zipit Things

I've been working for the last week on organizing and uploading information about the zipit z2 wireless messenger and how to go about flashing it to boot debian linux.

Hunter Davis figured out how to get the system working, and Aliosa27 has done excellent work with userland and emulation, but there's not a lot of organized info out there about where to go from there.

I decided to put everything into a few pages on this site, and I'll probably be retooling it for another week before releasing it on reddit and such to the general public, but it's a really fun thing to be working on as a side project. The zipit runs most things, and I'm just working on trying to make things as usable as possible after the base install.

I've got just under a gigabyte of storage left on the miniSD, so now I'm trying to figure out what the "optimal" combinations of programs for the device will be. What is the best wireless manager, is word processing possible, can the device do power management, etc.

I'm excited to do some more work on the wireless frontier, as right now I'm limited to manually connecting to unsecured access points or WEP. I really need a super lightweight system for connecting to WPA2 networks with authentication. Unfortunately, after networkmanager and wicd, there doesn't seem to be a lot in the way of functionality like that. But then again, I didn't know almost anything about apm until this week, so there's always little nuggets of joy to discover when it comes to linux.

So I suppose I'll end here for now, and keep working on my zipit pages, and in the near future, I'll actually have some content on here that other people find interesting. Fancy that!