Re: [Sugar-devel] A show of excitement and source of motivation for everyone here
Hi, I agree that I should have credited you for that answer. Will credit you appropriately in the answer about Grayscale. Let me know if you've any updates that I could make in any other comments (like browse comment). I'll happily do so with credit. Thanks, Sumit On Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 1:15 AM James Cameron wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 09:23:18PM +0530, Sumit Srivastava wrote: > > Just came across this one-year-old comment of mine on a YouTube > > video titled "The Coolest Netbook You’ve Forgotten About: The OLPC > > XO-1" when someone commented on my comment about 2 hours ago. [Link > > to the video: [1]https:// youtu.be/UPP4ClRmVik] > > > > I thought that I'd share it all of you on the mailing list since it > > shows that people are still excited to hear about the cool stuff > > that the people here have built and the impact you're delivering > > each and every day. All of you are awesome! > > > > Sharing the whole YouTube comment transcript here, without any > > editing: > > Thanks. Reviewed. > > Your answer about Browse is out of date. You probably used Wiki pages > that have not been updated for over a decade. Browse uses WebKit now. > > When you copy text written by someone else, please do credit them > appropriately. > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2019-June/056969.html > > https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs/blob/master/src/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md#be-considerate > > -- > James Cameron > https://quozl.linux.org.au/ > ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] A show of excitement and source of motivation for everyone here
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 09:23:18PM +0530, Sumit Srivastava wrote: > Just came across this one-year-old comment of mine on a YouTube > video titled "The Coolest Netbook You’ve Forgotten About: The OLPC > XO-1" when someone commented on my comment about 2 hours ago. [Link > to the video: [1]https:// youtu.be/UPP4ClRmVik] > > I thought that I'd share it all of you on the mailing list since it > shows that people are still excited to hear about the cool stuff > that the people here have built and the impact you're delivering > each and every day. All of you are awesome! > > Sharing the whole YouTube comment transcript here, without any > editing: Thanks. Reviewed. Your answer about Browse is out of date. You probably used Wiki pages that have not been updated for over a decade. Browse uses WebKit now. When you copy text written by someone else, please do credit them appropriately. http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2019-June/056969.html https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs/blob/master/src/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md#be-considerate -- James Cameron https://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] A show of excitement and source of motivation for everyone here
Just came across this one-year-old comment of mine on a YouTube video titled "The Coolest Netbook You’ve Forgotten About: The OLPC XO-1" when someone commented on my comment about 2 hours ago. [Link to the video: https://youtu.be/UPP4ClRmVik] I thought that I'd share it all of you on the mailing list since it shows that people are still excited to hear about the cool stuff that the people here have built and the impact you're delivering each and every day. All of you are awesome! Sharing the whole YouTube comment transcript here, without any editing: Sumit Srivastava 1 year ago Hi, I'm from SugarLabs, the organisation that makes the software that OLPC laptops (and a lot more devices) run on. Happy to answer any questions. Please ask. Likes: 132 generic Josh number 96 generic Josh number 96 1 year ago Do you know if the display is switching modes with the greyscale thing? Very curious how the screen works Likes: 9 Alex Alex 1 year ago Have the laptops been upgraded over the years or have they stayed with the same exact hardware as initially? Eg bigger storage, Ram, a touchscreen, etc? Likes: 3 Sumit Srivastava Sumit Srivastava 1 year ago @generic Josh number 96 I have a better resource for you to read up on this display: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Display It serves a good intro to the OLPC display. Likes: 11 Sumit Srivastava Sumit Srivastava 1 year ago @generic Josh number 96 Thanks for asking. A kernel configuration file is used to select colour or grayscale mode in the driver, and thus the display controller ASIC. This is in the kernel sources. The keyboard shim detects brightness control keys and manages the backlight power. When the backlight is turned off, the grayscale mode is enabled. When the backlight is turned on, the grayscale mode is disabled. This is in the keyboard shim sources. On the XO-1.75 and XO-4 models, a reverse biased red LED in the same SMT package as the green storage LED is used as an ambient light sensor. The power management daemon (powerd) detects high ambient light and turns off the backlight and turns on the grayscale mode. The backlight is turned off to save power, and increase running time on battery. This is in the powerd sources. However, without any change to backlight brightness or mode switching, full sunlight does appear as greyscale, because the human eye can't discern the small amount of colour emitted by the backlight compared to the large amount of white light reflected from the sun. Likes: 26 Sumit Srivastava Sumit Srivastava 1 year ago @Alex The hardware has been regularly updated with release of newer models. For example, XO-4 (the latest one) has a touchscreen variant and improved hardware. Likes: 10 Alex Alex 1 year ago What engine is the SugarXO browser based on? Likes: 1 Sumit Srivastava Sumit Srivastava 1 year ago @Alex The simple browser also called browse activity is implemented using HulaHop library and uses Gecko rendering engine(same as Firefox). Other browsers available for XO laptops are Opera and Firefox. :) Likes: 6 Alex Alex 1 year ago @Sumit Srivastava Really??? Opera and Firefox can run on these laptops??? I'm impressed! Likes: 1 Sumit Srivastava Sumit Srivastava 1 year ago @Alex these laptops are not underpowered, they're just aimed at children who want to learn, and appropriately capable to do so. :) Likes: 7 velleda velleda 1 year ago Exactly why do you need a developer key to boot things other than official OS builds, and why does it take 24 hours to get one? Likes: 3 Sumit Srivastava Sumit Srivastava 1 year ago @velleda because this was designed with security and antitheft in mind, and it's pretty secure, along with being fun to play with. Likes: 4 Sumit Srivastava Sumit Srivastava 1 year ago @velleda also, thank you for asking. Here's a link to your question, if you want to read a long explanation: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developer_key_philosophy Likes: 4 TheSola10 TheSola10 1 year ago Would it be interesting to switch OLPC to Silverblue/OSTree for increased reliability and less required maintenance? Sumit Srivastava Sumit Srivastava 1 year ago @TheSola10 Sugar OS is designed specifically with young children in mind. All our decisions, designs, usability considerations are made with that thing in mind. I don't think any other organisation would want to do that with OS. Likes: Likes: 5 James Livesey James Livesey 1 year ago @NiggaNig420 TOONZ They're giving their best efforts to help. They may or may not be part of Sugar Labs (and in their defence it's hard to verify), but they are providing people with helpful answers, so please don't be so rude! Likes: 13 Kintaro oe Kintaro oe 1 year ago any way to unlock the bios? me and my father tried to install xp countless times but the bios didnt allow us to, it would make my childhood dream finally complete Likes: 2 Sumit Srivastava Sumit Srivastava 1 year ago @Kintaro oeyes, you can install other operating systems using de
[Sugar-devel] [ASLOv4][RELEASE] Implode - 20.1.1~quozl
Implode-20.1.1~quozl has been released Version: 20.1.1~quozl Bundle ID: com.jotaro.ImplodeActivity Release time: Thu Jan 21 04:12:57 2021 You can download the latest release of this activity here: - Info: https:///app/com.jotaro.ImplodeActivity - Download: https:///bundles/Implode-20.1.1~quozl.xo If you have questions about this review, please answer to this e-mail or join #sugar on chat.freenode.net. -- Sugar Activity Library https:// ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] [ASLOv4][RELEASE] JupyterLabs - 6
JupyterLabs-6 has been released Version: 6 Bundle ID: io.srevinsaju.JupyterLabs Release time: Thu Jan 21 04:12:57 2021 You can download the latest release of this activity here: - Info: https:///app/io.srevinsaju.JupyterLabs - Download: https:///bundles/JupyterLabs-6.xo If you have questions about this review, please answer to this e-mail or join #sugar on chat.freenode.net. -- Sugar Activity Library https:// ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] [ASLOv4][RELEASE] Browse - 206
Browse-206 has been released Version: 206 Bundle ID: org.laptop.WebActivity Release time: Thu Jan 21 04:12:57 2021 You can download the latest release of this activity here: - Info: https:///app/org.laptop.WebActivity - Download: https:///bundles/Browse-206.xo If you have questions about this review, please answer to this e-mail or join #sugar on chat.freenode.net. -- Sugar Activity Library https:// ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] [Systems] v4.activities.sugarlabs.org (ASLO-v4) is up!
And now, (Thanks bernie_!), we can use https://v4.activities.sugarlabs.org/services/update-aslo.php for supporting sugar's microformat update system as mentioned below: * support Sugar's microformat software upgrade feature in My Settings, (Sugar 0.116 is configured in|data/org.sugarlabs.gschema.xml|to use the AsloUpdater in|src/jarabe/model/update/aslo.py|which reaches out to a PHP script|update-aslo.php|, and will instead be configured to use|src/jarabe/model/update/microformat.py|), On 1/21/21 10:03 AM, Srevin Saju wrote: Right. I will configure ASLO-v4 to email sugar-devel@ with release notifications. Thanks to all developers, mentors who helped me out with this. Had a great experience working with it!!! On 1/21/21 10:00 AM, James Cameron wrote: Thanks, great work. Merged 204. I've also updated Browse. https://github.com/sugarlabs/browse-activity/commit/de3c4800ec705e5543c6be2c4d4695255d6e5aac I would prefer new version notifications to go to sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org, as that's one place we've seen them previously. a...@lists.sugarlabs.org was for handling by library editors, but we don't have any active, and we don't have the same process with v4. On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 09:16:47AM +0300, Srevin Saju wrote: G'day! ASLO-v4 is finally up at https://v4.activities.sugarlabs.org! ... with only a few more minor tidying up, ASLO-v4 will be ready for production. Activity maintainers can now push their bundles to ASLO-v4 by following the instructions on https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Service/activities4 as well as, that mentioned in https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs/pull/204. Please feel free to reach out, so that I can improve the existing documentation, or anything you think is too complex. Next steps: * Connect services/update-aslo.php and deploy a flask server (I am trying to get a hold of some more good apache knowledge) * Sending "new version detected" emails to a...@lists.sugarlabs.org, or should we create a new mailing list? -- Srevin Saju https://srevinsaju.me pub RSA 4096/66D390D7 2020-05-19 Srevin Saju (srevinsaju) sub RSA 4096/14479587 2020-05-19 ___ Systems mailing list syst...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/systems ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- Srevin Saju https://srevinsaju.me OpenPGP_0x1007816766D390D7.asc Description: application/pgp-keys OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel