Re: "giving kids a platform to create their future"

2009-06-11 Thread Rodolfo D. Arce S.
I'm not sure what you're saying is completely accurate.. I've seen versions of sugar (i just can't remember which version) that has in the activities option (run, erase, etc) has the "modify" option which allows you to modify the source code. I'll have to admit that none of those things are availa

Re: "giving kids a platform to create their future"

2009-06-11 Thread John Gilmore
> > Personally, I feel it is a mistake for the OLPC project to continue with the > > concept of the Sugar platform as its exclusive model for an educational > > computer. The Sugar applications (activities) could just as well be run > > from the Ubuntu desktop. Then students would actually be lea

Re: [OT] Test run of 2009/05/25 image

2009-06-11 Thread Sameer Verma
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Stanley Sokolow wrote: > Mikus, > > I've been using the Ubuntu version customized for the XO for a couple of > days now.  (See www.olpcnews.com for info about "Teapot's" XO-customized > Ubuntu 8.10 release.)   It is a little slow compared with my other > computers,

Re: libertas private ioctls

2009-06-11 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 08:42 +, Deepak Saxena wrote: > My quick answer is to move these forward from our old kernel. We can try > pushing them upstream too but I would like to understand why we need them > and if there are alternatives such as sysfs that we could use. Would it be appropriate

Re: [OT] Test run of 2009/05/25 image

2009-06-11 Thread Martin Dengler
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 11:44:11AM -0700, Stanley Sokolow wrote: > Personally, I feel it is a mistake for the OLPC project to continue with the > concept of the Sugar platform as its exclusive model for an educational > computer.The Sugar applications (activities) could just as well be run > fr

Re: libertas private ioctls

2009-06-11 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Jun 10 2009, at 11:48, Daniel Drake was caught saying: > Hi Deepak, > > In OLPC OS 8.2, libertas had private ioctls > which /etc/init.d/olpc-configure used to configure the LEDs: > iwpriv eth0 ledgpio 1 1 2 12 3 16 > > These aren't present in the 2.6.30-rc5 kernel I am running on my XO-1