OLPC upgrades

[david at lang.hm]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Wade Brainerd wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 5:44 PM, <david at lang.hm> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>>
>>> We can skip the "build a replacement" step, and head for the goal faster.
>>>
>>
>> the entire sugar infrastructure is a 'build a replacement' step. people are
>> questioning if it was the right thing to do as opposed to using existing
>> tools and infrstructure. (with the other part of the question being is it
>> faster to go ahead and try to optimise Sugar or switch to more mature
>> solutions)
>>
>
> I don't think you can correlate 'mature' with 'fast'.  Gnome is quite mature
> but also quite bloated.
>
> The XO is a weak machine by today's performance standards, so trying to run
> today's Linux is going to require heavy optimization no matter what you
> start with.
>
> People just have to stop arguing about it and start doing that optimization
> work, like Benjamin did today :)

or just run other distros (like many of us are doing)

however, even those of us who run other distros (and see the differences) 
would like to see the Sugar 'distro' improve.

David Lang