[sword-devel] olpc discussion

2007-04-24 Thread DJ Ortley
I'm sure I'm not the only one who's thought of something like this, but should we be looking at the One Laptop Per Child project? While that project is not intended for (and many on the project may be quite hostile towards) religious material, I would assume it would still be a good thing to have

Re: [sword-devel] olpc discussion

2008-01-25 Thread Jason Galyon
Yes, handily there are virtual images available also for Parallels and QEMU. Check out http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers/Setup for information for developers. Personally, I prefer to use the jhbuild (sugar-jhbuild) to get the latest development goodies. Let me know if you need any help sett

Re: [sword-devel] olpc discussion

2008-01-25 Thread DM Smith
I found an interesting link that has the XO running in VMWare's Fusion. Probably would work for their other offerings. This might provide an easy way to play around with it. http://www.freesmug.org/newsitems/news912 In Him, DM Smith DJ Ortley wrote: > I'm sure I'm not the only one who's th

Re: [sword-devel] olpc discussion

2007-04-24 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
>From what little I know about the technical specifications of the device, my biggest concerns are RAM and disc capacity. Some specs: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Hardware_specification http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Software http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Software_components 256M RAM and 1Gbyte mass storage

Re: [sword-devel] olpc discussion

2007-04-24 Thread Sean Kennedy
Since these devices are supposed to be networked most of the time, maybe a web app would be a better fit. I think that would have appeal beyond the OLPC crowd ... of course, then someone has to host it ... unless it is small enough to be run right on the local machine (in which case everything wo

Re: [sword-devel] olpc discussion

2007-04-24 Thread Darius Clarke
I believe the intent is to run most things on the OLPC from the web. But that's filtered by the government and school buying and distributing it. I know those developing it are humanists who have little use for faith based efforts. Perhaps the easiest way to run something on it would be to develo

Re: [sword-devel] olpc discussion

2007-04-24 Thread Darius Clarke
Also, the complete IDE is built into the image. All source code for the IDE is included in just one other file. The image is compact since it's just an image of the running memory. The incremental compiler is built into the VM so you can test it and change it ... while it's running. __

Re: [sword-devel] olpc discussion

2007-04-25 Thread Sean Kennedy
A Squeaky, sneaky Bible application sounds cool. :-) On 24/04/07, Darius Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Also, the complete IDE is built into the image. All source code for the IDE is included in just one other file. The image is compact since it's just an image of the running memory. The in

Re: [sword-devel] olpc discussion

2007-04-25 Thread DJ Ortley
You can download squeak and play with it on a Windows box without much trouble. I did it a while ago, but I didn't personally like it. Then again, I'm not a 12 year old (no comments about my mental age please, thank you very much :P ) Though, if squeak promises to be an easy to use programming

Re: [sword-devel] olpc discussion

2007-04-25 Thread Jason Galyon
Python is used heavily in the OLPC software, so you do not need a separate VM for squeak. I attended the US Python Conference (PyCon) and heard a good discussion of OLPC's architecture. Python is used everywhere on the system except for areas like Xorg where speed and existing non-Python code

Re: [sword-devel] olpc discussion

2007-04-25 Thread Matt Reimer
On 4/24/07, DJ Ortley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sure I'm not the only one who's thought of something like this, but > should we be looking at the One Laptop Per Child project? > > While that project is not intended for (and many on the project may be quite > hostile towards) religious materi

Re: [sword-devel] olpc discussion

2007-04-29 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
First, my apologies for being so absent lately. I'm excited to see all the traffic. Should be back in the swing of things in a week or so. Sean Kennedy wrote: > Since these devices are supposed to be networked most of the time, maybe > a web app would be a better fit. We have a full-featured