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 from

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 Sokolowstanleysoko...@gmail.com 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

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

2009-06-10 Thread Stanley Sokolow
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, as expected for a computer running at less than .5 GHz, but much

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

2009-06-09 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Disclaimer: This post contains Off-Topic meta discussion Conclusion: fedora-olpc, to be a sucess, needs a much slimmer UI than that of GNOME. Success needs to be defined. Seems to me the OLPC was envisioned mainly for a single-application environment. Except for being slow at