Ubuntu on XO-1.5

2010-09-01 Thread James Cameron
Announcing XO-1.5 Ubuntu desktop and minimal builds, based on 10.04 "lucid" and the "maverick" testing suite that should lead to 10.10. The desktop build is GNOME based, is 284 MB compressed, 814 MB installed, and is built on a 2 GB partition size. The minimal build avoids X and contains only tex

Re: Ubuntu on XO-1.5

2010-09-02 Thread David Farning
Pretty interesting! Have you seen the recent work happening in puppy linux for the XO? Puppy is largely derived from Ubuntu. (last time I checked) david On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 11:24 PM, James Cameron wrote: > Announcing XO-1.5 Ubuntu desktop and minimal builds, based on 10.04 > "lucid" and the

Re: Ubuntu on XO-1.5

2010-09-08 Thread Samuel Klein
I have not! I love puppy linux. I remember a group really wanted to be the underlying OS on the XO at the start of the project... On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:14 AM, David Farning wrote: > Have you seen the recent work happening in puppy linux for the XO? > Puppy is largely derived from Ubuntu. (la

Re: Ubuntu on XO-1.5

2010-09-09 Thread Yang Ha Nguyen
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 11:47:19AM -0400, Samuel Klein wrote: >I have not! I love puppy linux. I remember a group really wanted to >be the underlying OS on the XO at the start of the project... > >On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:14 AM, David Farning wrote: >> Have you seen the recent work happening in

Re: Ubuntu on XO-1.5

2010-09-09 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 06:39:32PM +0700, Yang Ha Nguyen wrote: > Puppy Linux should be better than Ubuntu on XO since it's much more > lightweight. Sounds like you haven't tried what I built then. I've not included everything Ubuntu includes. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___

Re: Ubuntu on XO-1.5

2010-09-10 Thread Yang Ha Nguyen
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 09:00:59AM +1000, James Cameron wrote: >On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 06:39:32PM +0700, Yang Ha Nguyen wrote: >> Puppy Linux should be better than Ubuntu on XO since it's much more >> lightweight. > >Sounds like you haven't tried what I built then. I've not included >everything U

Re: Ubuntu on XO-1.5

2010-09-13 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 05:05:44PM +0700, Yang Ha Nguyen wrote: > No, I have not. I don't have an XO to try, but according to what you > have specified: Ah, right, that's frustrating, because your comment is based on no evidence of testing, and therefore I can't use it for refining my build. > >

Anyone playing with Ubuntu on XO-1.5?

2010-06-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
[ Put aside the tinfoil hats (there's no Ubuntu conspiracy) and the distro flames (no, I don't want to know which one is better). ] Curious minds want to know... Have you installed, or tried to install vanilla(ish) Ubuntu on an XO-1.5? If yes, which version? What install process? Did it work? Dri

Re: Anyone playing with Ubuntu on XO-1.5?

2010-06-14 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > [ Put aside the tinfoil hats (there's no Ubuntu conspiracy) and the > distro flames (no, I don't want to know which one is better). ] > > Curious minds want to know... At this point Sugar on Ubuntu is unusable broken. Activity Central ha

Re: Anyone playing with Ubuntu on XO-1.5?

2010-06-14 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 18:33, David Farning wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Martin Langhoff > wrote: >> [ Put aside the tinfoil hats (there's no Ubuntu conspiracy) and the >> distro flames (no, I don't want to know which one is better). ] >> >> Curious minds want to know... > > At thi

Re: Anyone playing with Ubuntu on XO-1.5?

2010-06-14 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 18:33, David Farning wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Martin Langhoff >> wrote: >>> [ Put aside the tinfoil hats (there's no Ubuntu conspiracy) and the >>> distro flames (no, I don't want to know which one

Re: Anyone playing with Ubuntu on XO-1.5?

2010-06-14 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 19:17, David Farning wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 18:33, David Farning wrote: >>> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Martin Langhoff >>> wrote: [ Put aside the tinfoil hats (there's no Ubuntu conspiracy) an

Re: Anyone playing with Ubuntu on XO-1.5?

2010-06-14 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 14.06.2010, at 19:17, David Farning wrote: > Phase one is improving the relationship with Debian and establishing > credibility:) Yay! :) I talked to some of the Debian-Edu/Skolelinux folks at LinuxTag. There's interest from their side, too. - Bert - _

Re: Anyone playing with Ubuntu on XO-1.5?

2010-06-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Curious minds want to know... > > Have you installed, or tried to install vanilla(ish) Ubuntu on an > XO-1.5? If yes, which version? What install process? Did it work? > Drivers missing our outdated? Did you have to grab custom packages? >

Re: Anyone playing with Ubuntu on XO-1.5?

2010-06-14 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Martin Langhoff > wrote: > > Curious minds want to know... > > > > Have you installed, or tried to install vanilla(ish) Ubuntu on an > > XO-1.5? If yes, which version? What install process? Did it work? > > Drivers missing our outdated? Did

Re: Anyone playing with Ubuntu on XO-1.5?

2010-06-14 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 06/14/2010 02:46 PM, Paul Fox wrote: > a lot of work was done for ubuntu on XO-1. much of that work might be > applicable as well. i don't have a link handy, i'm afraid. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ubuntu_Lucid_on_OLPC_XO? -- Richard A. Smith One Laptop per Child __