On 11/4/11, Gonzalo Odiard <[email protected]> wrote: > Why not install the image in the local flash and use the SD to save the > content? > > Gonzalo
Well, doesn't also work when users install a number of activities and applications if they switch to Gnome :-/ (like JDK which is now very large... Processing which can be taught to older kids is about 80MB when unpacked (minus JRE)) Another reason is that if too many sectors on local flash become bad, the ability to run from SD is a big plus - as we all know flash storage has a read-write lifespan and web-centric behavior these days tends to be cache-heavy on read-writes (browser cache, streaming video, audio, etc) As an aside, I'd like to give kudos again to you guys who keep making this happen -- the advantage of the XO over something like Android is that you can actually use it to build apps to run on itself (beyond Javascript), and nowadays, I think it's what separates "devices" from "computers" given that devices these days have insane amounts of horsepower (and apps still manage to run like crap). I think most average developers these days don't know how to optimize stuff for performance (or even care for that matter) and have gotten lazy from Moore's law. It's become more relevant today than ever now that computing has started shifting more to mobile space and it's becoming the norm, and lazy reliance on Moore's law is a vicious cycle which has a horrific effect on the environment & sustainable computing (e-waste, power crisis). Regards, -Naz -- carlos nazareno http://twitter.com/object404 http://www.object404.com _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
