Ronald Prettyman

Been messing with the Zipit Z2. The ubuntu release by http://www.mozzwald.com/node/50. With some opitmization you can get a really useable thingy.

Started porting gentoo to the zipit. I have it booting now, just have to finish the touches on crosscompiler, then compile the packages I want. The first thing I’ve noticed is gentoo is only using about 13 megs of ram after boot though it takes twice as long to boot as ubuntu. Ubuntu was using about 25 megs at boot so its a significant difference. More to come on this, will probably be working on getting suspend, hybernate, xorg, sound, etc, in the next week. But it is booting which is promising.

If you want to try it, you can loosely follow http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-arm.xml. Your need linux running on a machine connected to the net to set it up and your want to use armv5tel. Recommend using uboot.