A link to the OOO
Newsletter was posted today on the Openzaurus mail list. It has a
couple of hopeful developments:
- They are about to release OpenZaurus 3.5.4. I abandoned
testing 3.5.3 on the grounds that I couldn’t read the default terminal
font on the screen, none of the font changing commands I knew about
seemed to work, and I couldn’t make my normal USB connection work so
that I could do terminal work from my desktop machine. - In the improvements section between 3.5.3 and 3.5.4, they report
an implementation of True Type fonts for Opie, so it’s likely that the
font-handling got some testing in this release. - Not in the newsletter, but the newsletter’s author, Mickey Lauer,
reported a few weeks ago on the mailing list that he had ordered the
microphone/earphone attachment for his Zaurus, so it’s possible that
audio will have better testing on this release, too.
So when 3.5.4 comes out, I will test it, but if you read the
newsletter, you can see that the developers are working really hard on
problems that don’t seem at all related to my usability issues, so I
won’t be surprised if it is again not a step forward from 3.5.2.
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