Re: advantage of full linux over android for OLPC

2011-01-18 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:05 AM, Carlos Nazareno object...@gmail.com wrote: While browsing the new slashdot coverage on OLPC, there was a very good point made regarding Android vs. full Linux: There's no JRE/JDK running on Android, so that's a plus for not switching to Android, given that so

Re: advantage of full linux over android for OLPC

2011-01-18 Thread Carlos Nazareno
They are dev machines. There are people using them for exactly that. They also support the full java stack although its probably somewhat slow on the XO-1. Peter Yeah, I was using Processing on the XO 1. It worked fine under Sugar, you just had to launch it via command line and it was a

Re: advantage of full linux over android for OLPC

2011-01-18 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
On Tuesday 18 January 2011 17:11:50 Carlos Nazareno wrote: They are dev machines. There are people using them for exactly that. They also support the full java stack although its probably somewhat slow on the XO-1. Peter Yeah, I was using Processing on the XO 1. I’ve been using an XO

Re: advantage of full linux over android for OLPC

2011-01-18 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 18 January 2011 20:11, Carlos Nazareno object...@gmail.com wrote: Kudos on the switch and getting stuff to run on ARM. Low power = big big deal! (btw, is the battery tech still the same between the XO-1, 1.5 and 1.75)? Yes for the XO-1 and XO-1.5. The XO-1.75 is still in development, but I

Re: advantage of full linux over android for OLPC

2011-01-18 Thread Paul Fox
sridhar wrote: On 18 January 2011 20:11, Carlos Nazareno object...@gmail.com wrote: Kudos on the switch and getting stuff to run on ARM. Low power = big big deal! (btw, is the battery tech still the same between the XO-1, 1.5 and 1.75)? Yes for the XO-1 and XO-1.5. The

advantage of full linux over android for OLPC

2011-01-17 Thread Carlos Nazareno
While browsing the new slashdot coverage on OLPC, there was a very good point made regarding Android vs. full Linux: There's no JRE/JDK running on Android, so that's a plus for not switching to Android, given that so many cool stuff is being taught/done in Java. (i.e. http://processing.org ) It