The Terminal application, or Shell as it is often referred to, can be an extremely useful tool. The Zaurus' Terminal application utilises the bash flavour of Shell. An explanation of this is beyond the scope of this book, but if you're unfamiliar with what you can do with the Shell and Shell scripts then we would recommend you take a further look. For instance, the Get Podcast application that we provide is a simple Shell script, just invoked from an application icon.

You have some flexibility in changing the font, size and colour scheme to suit your own personal tastes.

If you need to use su then the password is figlabs. We felt it was important to have some level of protection.