<div class="gmail_quote">2009/2/2 Tiago Marques <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tiagomnm@gmail.com">tiagomnm@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:03 AM, Mitch Bradley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wmb@laptop.org" target="_blank">wmb@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Guess what? The people at OLPC, who aren't stupid, already considered<br>
every point in the message cited below, a long time ago. So why aren't<br>
we doing them? ...* *On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Carlos Nazareno<br>
<<a href="mailto:object404@gmail.com" target="_blank">object404@gmail.com</a>>wrote:</blockquote><div></div></div><div>Nobody's saying anyone is stupid. It is perfectly natural for people to complain about things they don't understand. I also wish I could, from time to time, to ask this or that, to understand many things I don't comprehend, to know what I can do to help. This without getting into any kind of fight with the people involved with the project, who are the only ones who can answer those questions.</div>
<div></div><div>As with any critical comment I may issue in this mailing list,<strong> please take it as something constructive</strong>, to help (if it does, in any way) and not to criticize the people who are hard at work. That, I think, is what Carlos was trying to do.</div>
<div></div><div>I got my XO three weeks ago and there's a lot I was surprised to learn that some of the more important features are WIP or simply don't work, especially given the news that I've read, already detailing prototypes of a second version, when there's still a lot to do with the first one.</div>
<div></div><div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hey Tiago,</div><div><br></div><div>I've been following the project for about 2 years now and the software problems you cite (OOM crashing, flaky wireless, battery life, sluggish UI) are pretty much the same ones that existed back when I got involved! The lack of momentum on the software front has been pretty amazing given how much the project started with.</div>
<div><br></div><div>That said, things seem to be picking up speed as more control over the software is handed to the community. I finally feel like there's maybe a chance to see some of this stuff get resolved.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Here's hoping SL's XOOS or SoaS, or else some deployment's distribution will take better advantage of the excellent hardware that is the XO-1. I'd really like to see someone try to build a tiny LFS based XO specific distro which runs Sugar, and boots in <30sec :) I've got my personal XO booting in around 45sec just by hacking around in the initscripts, and I'm sure a lot better could be done.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>-Wade</div></div>