After attempting build GPE and some other apps using OpenEmbedded for the GP2X, I decided to just take a shot at running OpenZaurus 3.5.4 on the GP2X and see how far I got. I used the “X server”:http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=28653 ported by “Orkie”:http://www.orkiesrealm.co.uk along with an OpenZaurus build extracted to an ext2 formatted SD card. I built a static binary of chroot from coreutils and simply ran:
chroot /mnt/sd /bin/sh
After some configuration changes I was able to start gpe-login and create a user and login! I then attempted to install AbiWord and Dillo2 from the ipkg feed, the result you can see below:
Everything is still a little slow at the moment due to the X server using GPM in repeater mode and GPM seems to hammer the CPU. I renice’d GPM and that improved things a bit.
If your interested in helping out please let me know! You’ll need an ext2 formatted SD card and most likely will also need Linux on the desktop too.
FYI, there is an option to build AbiWord without the big margins IIRC, it’s—enable-embedded or thelike. The toolbar is being worked on so it’s hopefully becoming more useful.