Re: [OLPC New Zealand] OLPC XO-3 on slashdot front page right now

2012-01-09 Thread Tom Parker
On Sun, 2012-01-08 at 08:56 -0500, Walter Bender wrote: I agree with your pragmatic argument, but... I am almost certain that what is being demoed on the XO-3.0 at CES is in fact Sugar running on Fedora. It looks to be all Sugar so far: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1238R-QY31E

Re: The Fedora Fifteen Franken ARM hardfp build 1 for XO 1.75

2012-01-09 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Niels de Vos ni...@nixpanic.net wrote: On 01/03/2012 01:03 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: The This sonic transducer, it is I suppose some kind of audio-vibratory-physio-molecular transport device? release. THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT RELEASE AIMED AT CORE OS/HW

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] OLPC XO-3 on slashdot front page right now

2012-01-09 Thread Walter Bender
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Tom Parker t...@carrott.org wrote: On Sun, 2012-01-08 at 08:56 -0500, Walter Bender wrote: I agree with your pragmatic argument, but... I am almost certain that what is being demoed on the XO-3.0 at CES is in fact Sugar running on Fedora. It looks to be all

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] OLPC XO-3 on slashdot front page right now

2012-01-09 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 09.01.2012, at 13:38, Walter Bender wrote: On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Tom Parker t...@carrott.org wrote: On Sun, 2012-01-08 at 08:56 -0500, Walter Bender wrote: I agree with your pragmatic argument, but... I am almost certain that what is being demoed on the XO-3.0 at CES is in fact

Re: The Fedora Fifteen Franken ARM hardfp build 1 for XO 1.75

2012-01-09 Thread Niels de Vos
On 01/03/2012 01:03 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: The This sonic transducer, it is I suppose some kind of audio-vibratory-physio-molecular transport device? release. THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT RELEASE AIMED AT CORE OS/HW DEVELOPERS This is a hard floating point Franken release for development and

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] OLPC XO-3 on slashdot front page right now

2012-01-09 Thread Walter Bender
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:39 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 01:46:49PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote: How is Ed bringing up the Sugar frame? There appears to be no physical button at all (except for power). Put mouse cursor in corner.  Can be done by dragging

Announcing Q4C12

2012-01-09 Thread James Cameron
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q4c12 For XO-1.75 B1 and C1. OpenFirmware * new EC firmware 0.4.00, * fix for ''EDI byte in timeout'', * flattened device tree support, * ext4 filesystem read and delete support, * fix for file deletion leaving ext2 filesystems requiring fsck, * fix for