With the spin-off of Sugar development to sugarlabs, it is nice to see the development continued.
However, it seems that the OLPC layoffs and refocus has scuttled the work to complete some OS and system software support for the XO-1 hardware features. For example, I have been waiting for the video scaler support to allow for adjustable display resolutions on the XO. Among other things, it would allow programs that don't understand a 1200x900 but only 6x4" display to work at a more usable resolution where the graphic elements and text/fonts are consistent and visible to the naked eye... It would allow for much improved video performance since you could play back a 320x240 video on the full screen at considerable CPU savings. I had thought this capability would be coming with the Fedora 10 move in 9.1.0. With that release now scuttled, I'm wondering more generally, are these pieces being picked up anywhere? Would it make sense to have an 8.2.2 release involving the move to Fedora 10 but pretty much the same as 8.2.1 otherwise? --Chris _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
