Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-31 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
> It would be good to improve the situation, but as was discussed in the > past, yum does not seem to work very well on the XO. Manually tracking > the relevant upstream security updates would require some effort. My own preference is to not work with "static" software - but to apply as many updat

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-31 Thread Bernie Innocenti
El Mon, 31-05-2010 a las 08:19 +1200, Tim McNamara escribió: > Just for my knowledge, does Fedora have an equivalent to Ubuntu's > long-term support releases? Yes, it's called Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and it comes with commercial support. If you want a free-beer equivalent with no guarantees,

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-31 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Tim McNamara wrote: > On 26 May 2010 06:16, Peter Robinson wrote: >> >> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Bernie Innocenti >> wrote: >> > Hello everyone, >> > >> > we've just started a new development cycle aimed at providing Sugar 0.88 >> > for the XO-1. Our focu

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-30 Thread David Farning
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: > On 26 May 2010 06:16, Peter Robinson wrote: >> >> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Bernie Innocenti >> wrote: >> > Hello everyone, >> > >> > we've just started a new development cycle aimed at providing Sugar 0.88 >> > for the XO-1. Our foc

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-30 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
CentOS ? On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Tim McNamara wrote: > On 26 May 2010 06:16, Peter Robinson wrote: > >> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Bernie Innocenti >> wrote: >> > Hello everyone, >> > >> > we've just started a new development cycle aimed at providing Sugar 0.88 >> > for the XO-1.

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-30 Thread Tim McNamara
On 26 May 2010 06:16, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Bernie Innocenti > wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > we've just started a new development cycle aimed at providing Sugar 0.88 > > for the XO-1. Our focus is stability and usability for deployments, > > although we're

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-26 Thread Bernie Innocenti
El Wed, 26-05-2010 a las 12:00 -0300, Daniel Drake escribió: > As has been pointed out, there is some kernel code floating around > that is working in this direction. However, it's not totally correct > and the kernel developers want a more generic system rather than > something Geode-specific. An

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-26 Thread Daniel Drake
On 25 May 2010 18:12, Peter Robinson wrote: > That's not entirely true. The was no changes in CPU support from F-12 > to F-13. What has happened was a change in gcc which causes issues > with F-13 on geode processors. There's a bit missing from gcc for > geode support that would need to be added.

Re: ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-26 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > TBH I don't know what changed between F-12 and F-13. It wasn't > the compile flag changes as I checked them so I'm wondering > wondering why its suddenly a problem. gcc changed; it started emitting NOPL instructions under i686. - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child _

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-26 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > El Wed, 26-05-2010 a las 09:29 +0100, Peter Robinson escribió: > >> > I'm happy to hear this. F14 may bring interesting changes for the XO1, >> > can we hope that support for the Geode won't have been dropped by >> > then? >> >> There was

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-26 Thread Bernie Innocenti
El Wed, 26-05-2010 a las 09:29 +0100, Peter Robinson escribió: > > I'm happy to hear this. F14 may bring interesting changes for the XO1, > > can we hope that support for the Geode won't have been dropped by > > then? > > There was a bug report [1] that was filed about it to do with glibc. > Sinc

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-26 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 23:12, Peter Robinson wrote: >> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: >>> El Tue, 25-05-2010 a las 19:16 +0100, Peter Robinson escribió: >>> Is F-11 still the base OS for this? >>> >>> Unfortun

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-26 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 23:12, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: >> El Tue, 25-05-2010 a las 19:16 +0100, Peter Robinson escribió: >> >>> Is F-11 still the base OS for this? >> >> Unfortunately, this build is still based on Fedora 11. >> >> Fedora 13

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-25 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > El Tue, 25-05-2010 a las 19:16 +0100, Peter Robinson escribió: > >> Is F-11 still the base OS for this? > > Unfortunately, this build is still based on Fedora 11. > > Fedora 13 dropped support for the Geode processor, so it's not an > opti

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-25 Thread Bernie Innocenti
El Tue, 25-05-2010 a las 19:16 +0100, Peter Robinson escribió: > Is F-11 still the base OS for this? Unfortunately, this build is still based on Fedora 11. Fedora 13 dropped support for the Geode processor, so it's not an option. Upgrading to Fedora 12 would be possible, but there are unsolved i

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-25 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Simon Schampijer wrote: > On 05/25/2010 08:16 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: >> >> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Bernie Innocenti >>  wrote: >>> >>> Hello everyone, >>> >>> we've just started a new development cycle aimed at providing Sugar 0.88 >>> for the XO-1. Our

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-25 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 05/25/2010 08:16 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> we've just started a new development cycle aimed at providing Sugar 0.88 >> for the XO-1. Our focus is stability and usability for deployments, >> although we're also a

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-25 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > Hello everyone, > > we've just started a new development cycle aimed at providing Sugar 0.88 > for the XO-1. Our focus is stability and usability for deployments, > although we're also attempting to merge a couple of low-risk features > de

Re: ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-25 Thread Raul Gutierrez Segales
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 12:25 -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > Hello everyone, > > we've just started a new development cycle aimed at providing Sugar 0.88 > for the XO-1. Our focus is stability and usability for deployments, > although we're also attempting to merge a couple of low-risk features >

ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-25 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Hello everyone, we've just started a new development cycle aimed at providing Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1. Our focus is stability and usability for deployments, although we're also attempting to merge a couple of low-risk features developed in Uruguay. Full details are here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.