Ubuntu on XO-1.5

[Yang Ha Nguyen]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 11:47:19AM -0400, Samuel Klein wrote:
>I have not!  I love puppy linux.  I remember a group really wanted to
>be the underlying OS on the XO at the start of the project...
>
>On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:14 AM, David Farning <dfarning at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Have you seen the recent work happening in puppy linux for the XO?
>> Puppy is largely derived from Ubuntu. (last time I checked)
>>
>> david
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 11:24 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>>> Announcing XO-1.5 Ubuntu desktop and minimal builds, based on 10.04
>>> "lucid" and the "maverick" testing suite that should lead to 10.10.
>>>
>>> The desktop build is GNOME based, is 284 MB compressed, 814 MB
>>> installed, and is built on a 2 GB partition size.
>>>
>>> The minimal build avoids X and contains only text virtual consoles, is
>>> 138 MB compressed, 258 MB installed, and is built on a 512 MB
>>> partition size.
>>>
>>> The .zd files can be installed using fs-update on an unsecured XO-1.5
>>> with an internal SD size of 2 GB or more.
>>>
>>> Download from:
>>> http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/uxo/2010-09-02/
>>>
>>> These use the OLPC kernel as is, from our build os852 for 10.1.2.
>>>
>>> Please do not log bugs.  Patches only, thanks.
>>>
>>> Known problems:
>>>
>>> - no power management, the olpc-powerd package is not yet installed,
>>>
>>> - "no notifications" either side of date in GNOME panel, probably some
>>>  package is missing,
>>>
>>> git://dev.laptop.org/users/quozl/uxo is my repository of scripts that
>>> construct these builds.  Thanks to Andres Salomon for the ideas in
>>> debxo that have been copied.
>>>
>>> --
>>> James Cameron
>>> http://quozl.linux.org.au/
>>>
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+1

Puppy Linux should be better than Ubuntu on XO since it's much more
lightweight.

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