New Video – HULU on the Zipit Z2
And not just HULU, anything that you can dynamically transcode and serve on the network, you can watch or listen to on the Z2. 30 rock on the Zipit Z2? Oh YES THANKS. Instructions after the jump.
New Video – From Stock Z2 to Fully Flashed with Audio, Fluxbox, Mouse, Aliosa27′s Latest Userland
Here is a video Mark and I made of the complete flashing and installation process, and a tour of the new userland features.
Aliosa27′s new Z2 image with X, Audio, and KEYMOUSE
Aliosa27 continues his trend of FANTASTIC progress read on below
Updated* Follow thread for new packages and images!: MyAliosa27′s up to date Z2 root FS, Todd’s battlevel ipkg and keymap working in X
So I finally sanitized my root fs and managed to get it down to about 200 megs, grab it here.
Todd got the correct keymap working in X, grab it here
Todd built a battlevel ipkg , grab it here (From Todd: "To get the battery meter to work I had to manually create some inodes, with: mknod /dev/i2c-0 c 89 0")
100$ 64-bit 3ghz ppc cross compiler for the Z2 (Installing PS3 Linux and Cross Compiling Env from Thumbdrive)
I've been seeing a lot of PS3s come up on craigslist with broken optical drives, usually around 100$. Figuring this was a great way to free up my quadcore from mundane cross-compiling duty, I set about purchasing one and setting up the Z2 cross compiling environment. It took a bit of doing, but it works. Here's a step by step guide for setting yours up.