Mweston + Craig:
I take it Pandora will feature a sleep/stand-by mode to turn the screen off when not in use with an instant resume at the press of the power button? If I had to wait 3/4m or whatever for my Z to do a full boot every time I want to use it I would've never bought it. This is also one of the HUGE plus points it has over my increasingly archaic PC.
No BIOS bull at boot is lovely, I'd like to point out to those of you who've never used Linux on anything other than a normal PC.
Instead of having a BIOS screen on the Zaurus I've got 2 different menus, stored on a ROM, that I can boot into - the Maintenance Menu and the diagnostic menu. You access these special menus by holding down specific key combos whilst inserting the power after rebooting. The Maintenance Menu lets you choose which device to boot off and can also be used to restore the user drive. The diagnostic menu explains itself and I really wish my PC had a self-test app built onto ROM like my Zaurus. Its these features that made the Z 'unbrickable' without doing some real physical damage to the hardware and I'd want to be able to say the same of Pandora.
We'll have the option of booting off USB2 right?
EDIT
and how could I forget the emergency shell! The Z also has another key combo to boot to the minimalistic shell stored on the same rom.
I take it Pandora will feature a sleep/stand-by mode to turn the screen off when not in use with an instant resume at the press of the power button? If I had to wait 3/4m or whatever for my Z to do a full boot every time I want to use it I would've never bought it. This is also one of the HUGE plus points it has over my increasingly archaic PC.
No BIOS bull at boot is lovely, I'd like to point out to those of you who've never used Linux on anything other than a normal PC.
Instead of having a BIOS screen on the Zaurus I've got 2 different menus, stored on a ROM, that I can boot into - the Maintenance Menu and the diagnostic menu. You access these special menus by holding down specific key combos whilst inserting the power after rebooting. The Maintenance Menu lets you choose which device to boot off and can also be used to restore the user drive. The diagnostic menu explains itself and I really wish my PC had a self-test app built onto ROM like my Zaurus. Its these features that made the Z 'unbrickable' without doing some real physical damage to the hardware and I'd want to be able to say the same of Pandora.
We'll have the option of booting off USB2 right?
EDIT
and how could I forget the emergency shell! The Z also has another key combo to boot to the minimalistic shell stored on the same rom.