Re: Fedora Desktop on XO

2009-01-05 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Chris, >> > I would remove the old fc9 build from the olpc_development repo (or >> > even have one for 8.2.0 and one for 9.1.0 so they don't get mixed >> > up). Surely it should be pulling cyrus-sasl from the Fedora repos >> > anyway? >> >> I've just pushed a patch to pilgrim's joyride

Re: Wine activity

2009-01-05 Thread Ixo X oxI
Wade, :) Any hope of just convincing you to port your program to python/sugar, so it runs the best under sugar? :) -Ixo 2009/1/4 Wade Brainerd > Has anyone considered doing a scan of download.com and similar sites for > small, free educational software for Windows, and then bundling them wit

olpcupdate in Fedora Mainline

2009-01-05 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi All, olpcupdate doesn't seem to be in Fedora mainline, and I don't see a review request for it either. Is there a reason for this? If so could the maintainer (or someone who knows) organise that to happen? I can then review the package and help to get it into Fedora 10 and it can be crossed off

Re: Emulating 8.2-767

2009-01-05 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
The excellent folk who are doing the Ubuntu work often post to this list, and can speak for themselves, but here is what Morgan Collett replied when I asked: ... many "core" activities don't work. Read and > Write both depend on things we couldn't get packaged in Ubuntu in the > right time frame -

Re: Emulating 8.2-767

2009-01-05 Thread Peter Robinson
> It may be feasible to do this on Fedora, but it is not yet feasible on > Ubuntu. Sugar doesn't do anything interesting there because the networking > is broken. (They are working on it and the problem might be solved in a > test version, but it isn't feasible for someone who just wants to use >

Re: Emulating 8.2-767

2009-01-05 Thread Peter Robinson
> It may be feasible to do this on Fedora, but it is not yet feasible on > Ubuntu. Sugar doesn't do anything interesting there because the networking > is broken. (They are working on it and the problem might be solved in a > test version, but it isn't feasible for someone who just wants to use >

New staging build 8

2009-01-05 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/xo-1/streams/staging/build8 Changes in build 8 from build: 7 Size delta: 0.00M -kernel 2.6.25-20080925.1.olpc.f10b654367d7065 +kernel 2.6.25-20081219.5.olpc.7e2ccbbc5144106 -- This mail was automatically generated See http://dev.laptop.org/~rwh/announcer/sta

New joyride build 2614

2009-01-05 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2614 Changes in build 2614 from build: 2613 Size delta: 0.00M -kernel 2.6.27-20081219.2.olpc.6ee9772cc1e8959 +kernel 2.6.27-20090104.1.olpc.48de97f1a90c0e4 -- This mail was automatically generated See http://dev.laptop.org/~rwh/anno

[Server-devel] Presence Server

2009-01-05 Thread Carlos Dario Isaza Zamudio
Hello What changes need to be made on the XO side and on the XS side in order for this to work. So far i installed the idmgr on the XS and changed the line REGISTER_URL = 'http://mydomain:80' In general, im having some troubles setting up the XS server with the XO integration services. I can g

Customized images

2009-01-05 Thread Carlos Dario Isaza Zamudio
I have a fully customized XO and i need to take an image from it to be installed on several computers inside the project. The thing is i need it to be separated from the activity pack, like the ones you use to update via USB. Questions 1) When i take the image from this one and install it into ano

Re: Emulating 8.2-767

2009-01-05 Thread Dave Bauer
You can also prepare virtualbox which is open source. I am interested in distributing a standalone install with virtualbox. That will work on Windows, Linux or OS X. Dave On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Brian Jordan wrote: > Hi Bert, > > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Bert Freudenberg > wr

Re: Please help test our pre-release build of 8.2.1

2009-01-05 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 05.01.2009, at 20:18, Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 11:04:01PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote: >> On 02.01.2009, at 17:09, Brian Pepple wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> A pre-release build of 8.2.1 is now available for testing. It has >>> passed >>> an initial smoke test and no

Re: Please help test our pre-release build of 8.2.1

2009-01-05 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 11:04:01PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote: >On 02.01.2009, at 17:09, Brian Pepple wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> A pre-release build of 8.2.1 is now available for testing. It has >> passed >> an initial smoke test and now needs broader testing. >> >> The build download and probl

Re: Emulating 8.2-767

2009-01-05 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 01:18:53PM -0500, Wade Brainerd wrote: >On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Michael Stone wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 01:07:00PM -0500, Wade Brainerd wrote: >>> >>> I would love to convert my OLPC Installer for Windows over to VMWare. >>> In my experience it provides a be

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Testing] Please help test our pre-release build of 8.2.1

2009-01-05 Thread Simon Schampijer
Greg Smith wrote: > Hi Sugar team, > > Can you help clarify the right Browse version for 8.2.0 and 8.2.1 per > the thread below? Latest version in Sucrose 0.82 of Browse was 99. Then for the 0.84 we used 100 and ongoing integer numbers. So there is one Browse activity 101 targeted at 0.84 whic

Re: Emulating 8.2-767

2009-01-05 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
It may be feasible to do this on Fedora, but it is not yet feasible on Ubuntu. Sugar doesn't do anything interesting there because the networking is broken. (They are working on it and the problem might be solved in a test version, but it isn't feasible for someone who just wants to use standard

Re: Emulating 8.2-767

2009-01-05 Thread Wade Brainerd
It's just a ton more work to find emulator software, pick an OS, set it up, and install everything. I'd like all my Windows and Mac loving game developer buddies to just have a one click download and launch into Sugar. -Wade On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, > > > I woul

Re: Emulating 8.2-767

2009-01-05 Thread Wade Brainerd
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 01:07:00PM -0500, Wade Brainerd wrote: >> >> I would love to convert my OLPC Installer for Windows over to VMWare. >> In my experience it provides a better experience on Windows. I'd also >> like to convert it over to

Re: Emulating 8.2-767

2009-01-05 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > I would love to convert my OLPC Installer for Windows over to > VMWare. In my experience it provides a better experience on > Windows. I'd also like to convert it over to using Bert's image > rather than the stock 8.2.0 image. > What would be even better would be for the OL

Re: Emulating 8.2-767

2009-01-05 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 01:07:00PM -0500, Wade Brainerd wrote: >I would love to convert my OLPC Installer for Windows over to VMWare. >In my experience it provides a better experience on Windows. I'd also >like to convert it over to using Bert's image rather than the stock >8.2.0 image. > >What wo

Re: Emulating 8.2-767

2009-01-05 Thread Wade Brainerd
I would love to convert my OLPC Installer for Windows over to VMWare. In my experience it provides a better experience on Windows. I'd also like to convert it over to using Bert's image rather than the stock 8.2.0 image. What would be even better would be for the OLPC guys to set up emulator buil

Re: "Yay!, Bee, See" (ABC) software

2009-01-05 Thread Ben Wiley Sittler
Such a system sounds great to me! If it's similar to the widget formats supported by the Mac OS X's Dashboard, Konfabulator, and/or Opera that would be even better, since it would tie into an existing library of useful software. Basically, those use ZIP files with various custom layouts, content-ty

Ticket #7785 - the big picture

2009-01-05 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Ticket #7785 was an example of a general situation which I believe can evoke dissatisfaction on the part of the user. The scenario: A. The user has a good working connection to the outside world B. That connection stops working (for whatever reason) C. What the system ends up doing does

Re: Emulating 8.2-767

2009-01-05 Thread Brian Jordan
Hi Bert, On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > Feel free to post it anywhere you think it makes sense. Glad it's useful to > some. I already got some feedback after posting to my blog, including the > confirmation it indeed works on Windows: >From Bert's Blog > Update: Repor

Problem to use with USB VGA dongle

2009-01-05 Thread Ben Lau
Hi all, I am trying to use a USB VGA dongle on a XO with release v8.2. The USB VGA dongle is a generic USB to VGA adapter listed in the wiki page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Peripherals/USB_to_VGA However, I can not get it work by following the instruction in http://wiki.laptop.org/go/A

Re: Wine activity

2009-01-05 Thread Wade Brainerd
Yeah, I was thinking along the lines of a WineLearning activity or similar, versus bundling stuff with the main Wine activity. Wade On Jan 4, 2009, at 11:32 PM, "Vincent Povirk" wrote: > I'd prefer to avoid bundling in general because it adds to the disk > space requirement. I can justify 7-

Re: wiki.laptop.org upgrade

2009-01-05 Thread Ixo X oxI
Sorry to comment on a older topic. But have 2 cents to offer. :) I wasn't active on the wiki around Dec 3rd. And didn't see several items mentioned previously. And certainly appreciate moving to 'openid' as an excellent idea (i was one of the proponents of it about 9 months ago)... But in