Hi, For a while, I've been running Gnome and Debian on my XO. It's worked quite well, but installation has always been a pain. Some time ago I wrote scripts to generate ext3 and jffs2 images for the XO, but never got around to publish the images. I took some time over the past few days to clean things up, update them, and test.
DebXO-0.1 allows you to install Debian (lenny) and Gnome easily on your XO. It's a bit rough around the edges, but it's perfectly usable (I'm typing this email from within claws on it). It can be downloaded from here: http://queued.mit.edu/~dilinger/debxo/ The git repository can be downloaded via: git clone git://queued.mit.edu/git/xodist/ Once you've downloaded the .img and .crc files, stick them onto a USB stick, boot into OpenFirmware, and run 'copy-nand disk:\debxo-0.1.jffs2.img'. Reboot, and everything should work. You'll automatically be logged in as user 'olpc'; there is no password on this account. Root logins are disabled. User 'olpc' is allowed to sudo. If you'd like to set a password for either account, switch to a tty (ctrl-alt-1, for example), log in with username 'olpc', and run 'sudo passwd <user>'. I find it perfectly usable; with gnome running, I typically have 140MB of ram free. The two biggest memory hogs are epiphany (and other gecko-based browsers) and evince. DebXO includes links2 and xpdf, both of which make fine, low-memory alternatives (run 'links2 -g' for graphics). There are lots of bugs in this. Please don't report them right now, unless they are accompanied by fixes/patches/suggested workarounds. The ext3 image isn't ready for release due to kernel issues; it will be released later. Have fun! _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel