On 10/1/07, Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Brandorr wrote:
> > On 9/28/07, nospam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project had released XO Laptops for the
> public using G1G1 ("Buy 2 Get 1").
> > > One laptop will be sent to the buyer, another laptop will be sent to a
> child in developing country.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately the XO AMD Geode LX laptops is different from other
> laptops:
> > > 1. There is no BIOS inside the laptop.
> > > 2. There is no VGA/EGA/CGA mode.
> > > 3. Non standard boot procedure.
> > > 4. Nobody knows if it is possible to boot the laptop from external
> CD-Drive.
> > > 5. Ordinary / off-the-shelf OpenSolaris can't run on this laptop.
> Linux run on XO with patched/modified kernel.
> > >
> > > Is it possible to port OpenSolaris to XO laptops?
> > > Who can do this project?
> > > Thank you.
> >
> > Not happening. You only have 1G of storage. Solaris would need some
> > serious trimming to fit. (And maybe compression). With 256M of RAM it
> > would be crazy..
>
> Why ? I only have 256MB in my Ultra5 and crafted most of the
> ksh93-integration stuff on that machine. And disk space shouldn't be a
> big problem since much stuff can be trimmed, redundant stuff removed
> (e.g. the extra libc, 64bit stuff, includes etc.), Xserver linked
> statically etc.I never said it's impossible. I said "it's not happening". I can not imagine that someone would take on this project. Basically with all the trimming you would need to do to fit, and the amount of RAM modern browsers take to run, combined with the performance characteristics of the device, it would be a lot of work for little benefit. 256MB is passable for a server, but not so hot for a day to day desktop. (GUI apps: Browsing/flash video/javascript heavy apps/mp3s, OpenOffice, etc). Cheers, Brian ---- > > Bye, > Roland > > -- > __ . . __ > (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] > \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer > /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 > (;O/ \/ \O;) > -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/
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