> On February 24, 2015 at 8:55 AM Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I don't think Sugar Labs has lacked a long-term vision. It has been > since Day One to provide great tools for learning to children while > being hardware agnostic. That said, our tactics have been slowly > evolving as the market itself evolves. We launched Sugar Labs in early > 2008 when it was clear to some of us in the community that many > children would have access to computers other than the OLPC XO. We > wanted to reach those children, and indeed, many Sugar users run it on > netbooks such as the Intel Classmate. We've also continued to support > the XO as well. There are ~3 million XOs in the field, most of which > are still running Sugar as far as I know. (When I was in Nepal last > year, I saw Sugar running on machines built in 2007, a testament to > OLPC's hardware team.
It would be interesting to know what version of sugar/OS those XO-1s are running. > I am not sure why Sam thinks we need to discount > those machines or the kids using them.) I know this is not a sugar issue directly, more of an OLPC issue but since Fedora F12 the entire i686 platform's userland is being compiled with -mtune=atom[1] which would use sse[2]. This causes problems for some parts of sugar[3] now that java[4] is being used more and the XO-1 lacks sse. Fixing one package that uses sse might fix one issue but this is really a distro wide setting and other issues may float to the top in other areas. Just pointing out issues with XO-1s as I see it. Jerry 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/F12X86Support 2. https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.6.2/gcc/i386-and-x86_002d64-Options.html 3. http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2014-August/038536.html 4. http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4785 _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep