Give One Get One laptop for software development

[Jake B]

I'm surprisingly happy with the XO laptop keyboard. After only a day
of practice, I've acclimated enough to be productive.
How do you swap out the window manager?

Jake

On Dec 23, 2007 1:33 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima <yoshiki at vpri.org> wrote:
>   Danilo,
>
> > I'm a student at State University of Campinas, Brazil. I'm researching
> > efficient implementation of Elliptic Curve Cryptography in constrained
> > environments. I'm working with an ARM XScale PXA270 platform but would
> > like also to work with a x86-based constrained platform. I think the
> > OLPC laptop is an interesting option for many reasons.
> >
> > I'd like to know if one of those laptops of the Give One Get One program
> > are suitable for software development? I guess so, but would like to be
> > sure.
> >
> > Do I need any special hardware or cable to connect to the OLPC laptop
> > from my desktop? A telnet or SSH connection is all I need.
>
>   It highly depends on what you want to develop and how.  From what
> you described, you are not interested in developing software for for
> Sugar.  If so, you can certainly replace the window manager to, say,
> twm and start a terminal emulator to use the X Window System in
> somewhat more conventional way.
>
>   The size of your program won't be too large, so GCC should be fine
> to compile your software with the memory XO have.  You can of course
> compile your software on another computer and copy to run.
>
> > I want real timings, so I think an emulated solution would not be
> > suitable.
>
>   It sounds like you will want/need to do some assembly language
> programming.  Geode LX has some features to generate random number
> sequences (and AES accelarator).  I thought it has some statistic
> counter stuff, but don't know how to use it (or I don't know what it
> is, in fact).
>
>   As others wrote, the XO keyboard is not great...  But I'd say with
> some training, it is not unusable.  So it is conceivable to do the
> whole development on XO.
>
>   (What are the "many reasons" that makes it an interesting option for
> you?)
>
> -- Yoshiki
>
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