On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:14 AM, Carol Farlow Lerche <c...@msbit.com> wrote: > Martin, the last disk we bought, a few days ago, was $100 and half a > terabyte. I understand that you are trying to fit the XS into the > preexisting XO hardware, but realistically it is unlikely to be a > configuration a real school could use by itself. The deployments we know > about so far have large numbers of kids. It seems inconsistent to plan for > huge numbers of users on the wireless and yet hypothesize that the disk > space will be limited to the tiny amount on a flash card. >
I am not so sure that I agree. I suppose it all depends on what we call "tiny". I have a 64 GB drive on my laptop and I am using only 36% of it. Prices of SD are dropping rapidly. USB Flash is also quite cheap. Of course, spinning drives are cheaper. I just bought a external USB 1TB drive for $119. Even if XS on XO is unlikely, I see no reason for increasing the footprint of a system if it can be avoided. I myself was looking for the fuse module so that I can transfer the datastore to my Ubuntu laptop and grab objects there. So, the mono dependencies will not be on the XO, but on my Ubuntu laptop, which I am not too worried about. > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Martin Langhoff <martin.langh...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:52 PM, torello <tore...@torosoft.com> wrote: >> > the fuse module is published. >> > You can find it here: >> > http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/fsgateway/repos/mainline >> >> Surprise! It's written in Mono! >> >> I was wondering about whether I could use it on the XS to replace my >> PHP implementation of the DS reader (which already handles version "0" >> and 1 of the DS :-) ) but Mono is a bit of a monster of a dependency >> to bring in. >> >> C or Python would have been much better :-( >> >> Leaving all the language wars aside (as neither C nor Python are >> particular favourites of mine), my pragmatic head says: We are already >> paying the price for a huge runtime in Python. Let's make good on that >> "investment". >> >> Large runtimes are generally not a good match for a fast, snappy and >> modern desktop, but as long as we keep it down to one runtime, we pay >> once and collect the benefits (in much faster development) so I hope >> we can stick to one runtime. >> >> This is a cool project, and I am sure it is interesting and useful >> outside the Sugar stack itself. But somewhat ill-suited for building >> Sugar and XS tools -- maybe I had my hopes up on something it wasn't >> meant to be :-( >> >> cheers, >> >> >> >> >> m >> -- >> martin.langh...@gmail.com >> mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect >> - ask interesting questions >> - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first >> - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff >> _______________________________________________ >> Devel mailing list >> de...@lists.laptop.org >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > de...@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel