Re: [Openzaurus-users] New Zaurus Owner

[Frank <FIR@Frank.net>]

Thank you Josiah and Antoine for your comments comparing opie and gpe.  
It seems as though it may come down to choosing my applications and then 
choosing the OZ build that supports them.  Am I right in assuming that 
any given graphical app will run on one or the other but not both?

I'll list a few of the most important uses I'll have for the Zaurus and 
perhaps folks here can suggest OZ compatible apps that they've found to 
be good.

Top of the list is calendaring.  I need something to poke me when it's 
time for a meeting or I'll surely forget.  I'll want to sync my calendar 
with a Linux desktop app.

I'll need IMAP support, but I'd also like to be able to compose email 
when I am disconnected and send it when I am connected again.  (I spend 
a lot of time in airplanes).  Offline reading of selected folders would 
also be nice.

Contact management.  My email client of choice is currently 
Thunderbird.  It would be nice if I could sync contacts.

Blog posting.  Often it's only when I'm waiting in an airport that I 
have time to blog.  I'd like to be able to compose a blog entry, or a 
few, and post them when I am connected.  (I'm thinking of something like 
w.bloggar for Windows.  I haven't yet found a nice little app like this 
for my linux desktop.)

Photo slideshows.  I'm an amateur photographer.  I won't know until I 
try it, but I'm guessing that the VGA res on this Zaurus will make it 
worthwhile to carry around some of my photos to show people.  That will 
be nice. :)

And of course a lot of shell based stuff that I'm assuming will work on 
either opie or gpe.

I won't be surprised to hear that half of the above would be best on 
opie and half on gpe :) but I'm hoping it won't be so.  Any pointer, 
tips, suggestions will be very much appreciated.  And btw, a big thanks 
to the OZ developers.  It is the existence of OZ that convinced me to 
get a Zaurus.

Frank.