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This may not be appropiate for this forum, and if so I appologize. As a Zaurus user for many years, I could not help the urge to load the GPE rom image onto my 770. I expected much to be broken, but was surprised by what worked and what was included. I could not find much information on the delvelopment of GPE for the nokia 770 however. Does anyone have any links to the developement of this project? Is there a mailing list? Is there an active OPIE port as well? I downloaded the image from here:

http://handhelds.org/~philippe/

TIA,

Bob

Sure. Just go here:
http://oss.kernelconcepts.de/maemo/app-install.shtml

Install all of the packages for the calendar in order. Then if you need contacts and to do, just install the missing packages (installing through opera helps to highlight the uninstalled packages.

Thanks for the reply. The link you stated is for the GPE PIM applications. The image I was refering to (gpe-image-nokia770-20051201213527.rootfs.jffs2) replaces the entire OS (maemo) with the GPE OS. It includes the GPE PIM and all of the libraries along with some games, GPE mini-browser, and others. It is not ready for prime time as it has much broken. You flash this image simular to the flashing of the nokia image ( ./flasher -r gpe-image-nokia770-20051201213527.rootfs.jffs2 -f -R). After it flashes you have to wait a good 5 minutes or so for the system to come up (no progress bar, just Nokia displays on screen).I think it generates the ssh keys during this time. It has a totally different look then the stock Nokia image. It is very simular to GPE running on the Sharp Zaurus.

Sounds very interesting. Could you post some images from your configuration, or did you already remove the installation?

I reflashed the Nokia image back. But it looks very simular to this:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...lr%3D%26sa%3DN

I'd start with the wiki / collaboration page, and http://www.handhelds.org/email_lists.html

The three groups I'd start with are the open source for handhelds, the gpe kernel development, and list(s) at the very bottom for the ARM processor (probably the best place to hit).

While getting the GPE to work on the 770 sounds cool in theory, I just don't see much of a point of it. I think time would be better spent working with the maemo teams.

Thank you for the reply. This is what I was looking for. I ran across the GPE package quite by accident, and I was looking for more information about this developement. I agree that Maemo developement on the 700 is the best way, but having a choice is good as well. What I dislike about Maemo as it stands at the present time, is the home page and the "extras menu". I would like to have a home page that I can customize with my own shortcut icons to applications that I use daily. I really have no use for a big clock or a web shortcut link. It is really wasted real estate IMHO. Also all third party applications get bunched up under the "Extras" menu. I would prefer to have games under "Games", etc. I know that the menu can be configured by hand under /etc/osso-extra, but it is a bit of a PIA. Hopefully the 2006 software may address this. I love my 770 and I appreciate all the hard work that went into the present Maemo developement.

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i just tried the GPE-image and i'm quited impressed. I would really like to use GPE on my 770 but the wlan adapter is not recognized, dsp is not available etc.

Is there a chance for further developing of GPE on the 770?

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I would also be interested. There would be many new games :).

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GPE on the 700 would be very interesting. Possibly all Sharp Zaurus software could theoretically be run on the 770/880. I check Mr. De Swert's page periodically to see if he has posted any new images, but it appears development has stagnated.