On 18 Apr 2009, at 14:23, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: > Am 18.04.2009 um 08:16 schrieb NoiseEHC <noise...@freemail.hu>: > >> Hi! >> I would like to ask these questions from OLPC staff: >>> >>>> Does this also mean that people who already own XOs will find that >>>> new >>>> software is going to require a computer more powerful than they >>>> currently have? I thought that that was something that was going >>>> to be >>>> specifically avoided. >>>> >>> This is going to be a hard trap not to fall into, although several >>> of >>> the primary activities (Browse and Write) are based on desktop >>> products that are not necessarily aimed at low-power or embedded >>> systems, so I don't know if things will actually be any different. >>> >> What about the integrated 3D support? Are you planning to support >> OpenGL? In that case there will be a very wide performance gap (like >> 3D acceleration vs no 3D acceleration)... > > I honestly can't think of a use-case for including any sort of 3D > acceleration into the basic Sugar and activities. There's about a > million significantly more important things that people should be > working on before even thinking about 3D (IMHO).
You need to think harder ;-) 2 words... Google Earth. I'm working on a compromise solution given there is no 3d support on the XO. It's a ~half screen resolution rotating globe that will accept khtml coords (compatibility with outside world). After much poking I've settled on about 3-4Mb of pre-rendered rotating Earth movie, from 3 different latitude angles; this gives smooth rotation around the planet, and 3 view angles north, equator, and south. Then planning to layer on city/country label markers. Idea for sharing is so that you can create a list of geotags (probably just textual for now) and share them with someone else. Don't hold your breath, I seem to be a slow worker with OSS tools and APIs, but it is happening. Regards, --Gary >> Also it seems that this machine will be on par with current >> Netbooks. Are you planning to sell it through normal distribution >> channels? (As I am interested in theat still no Netbook has the >> display or the indestructible design my XO has.) > > I'd be very surprised if OLPC started selling the XO-1.5 via regular > sales channels. > > Christoph > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel