[OLPC-devel] Machine Testing

[Jim Gettys]

Tito,

I neglected to answer your question deliberately until our plans had
gelled better.

We are planning to build 500 developer boards (bare boards, without
display) over the summer and get them out to people, long before we hae
full up machines that come in cases, etc.  These plans just got far
enough I'm willing to mention them publicly; even the logistics of
distribution and ECO'ing of such a number of prototype boards is
daunting, but it looks like Brightstar Corporation, one of our sponsors,
has both the expertise and the desire to help us out.

We'll also, once we are able to produce full up machines (displays,
cases, keyboards, our early production quality units) have some more
significant number available toward the end of the year.

We haven't yet figured out how we're going to allocate them.  In fact,
if people have good ideas of how to make these decisions, it is
something Walter Bender and I have now started to worry about, and would
like input on.  This might be a good topic of discussion on this list
right now.

In the meanwhile, you can use RedHat's emulator, or if you are
interested in single applications, it is often very convenient to use
Mathew Allum's "Xepher" X server to simulate the characteristics of the
display.
                               Regards,
                                    - Jim



On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 08:50 -0700, Tito wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Im new to the project and I will like to know how the software is going to be tested for the
> machines, since no prototipes are available for purchase or develop and testing, it is consiered
> to develop a virtual machine or a set of information for configuration to build binaries, the idea
> is to work in parallel, that once the hardware is available, the programs are ready to be used,
> with free software is very easy to make changes but, I see a problem on the volume of the users,
> and im expecting some tropicalization of the software are needed.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Jim Gettys
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