[OLPC India] Meerut experiment and some queries

[JV Avadhanulu]

Thank you for sharing this , Shirish.
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JV Avadhanulu
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "shirish" <shirishag75 at gmail.com>
To: <arjun at laptop.org>
Cc: "olpc" <india at lists.laptop.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2008 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: [OLPC India] Meerut experiment and some queries


> Replies on-line :-
>
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Arjun Sarwal <arjun at laptop.org> wrote:
>> Hi Shirish
>
> Hi Arjun,
> Thanx for getting back so quickly.
>
> <snipped>
>
>> It has  a 1GB Nand Flash. There is no hdd to avoid having moving parts
>> inside (to keep it robust)
>
> right, and while there are reportedly issues with flash over extended
> period of time so dunno. (Please see slashdot and couple of other
> sites which have raised this issue in past, although not specifically
> for the OLPC)
>
>> The USB is  USB 2.0.
>
> That's cool though.
>>> 2. Using such a system has anyone at anytime used the XO to run sugar
>>> as well as Debian/Ubuntu and has put a howto of the same on the wiki.
>>> I'm sure somebody may have tried. If somebody has a link feel free to
>>> add the same.
>>>
>>> 3. Is the Wireless mesh networking/wi-fi mesh and USB-Ethernet on the
>>> go different hardware and follow different paths? If so, couldn't they
>>> be combined to give better bandwidth? There are applications in
>>> GNU/Linux IIRC which allow you to do this.
>>>
>> (Sorry I don't know of the above two points)
>
> There are both howtos to run Debian as well as Ubuntu but at different 
> places.
>
> http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/06/20/debian-on-olpc-xo-1/
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/howto_debian_olpc
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Installing_Debian_as_an_upgrade
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ubuntu_On_OLPC_XO
>
> If all the information could be in one place it would make things easier.
>
>>> 4. The XO has GPS . Couldn't it be used to plot places and things for
>>> like openlayers. Not for students but for teenagers and older.
>>>
>>
>> The XO doesn't have GPS. But it has 3 USB ports through which any
>> commercially available GPS can be connected.
>
> I stand corrected, this entry in the wiki talks about it .
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/GPS
>
>
>>> 5. Adobe-flash :- While I see you guys have used gnash why not also use 
>>> swfdec?
>>> swfdec is also blessed by GNOME as well.
>>>
>>> Another thing didn't adobe release quite some documentation about its
>>> format and stuff couple of months ago? Also isn't it now an ISO
>>> standard. The wordings in the wiki for Adobe flash needs to go a bit
>>> of change as well as look for free flash implementations.
>>>
>>
>> AFAIK Adobe only opened up  specifications to some of its formats.
>
> Right, it was PDF which got the ISO certification. Sorry.
>
> http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/02/pdf.gets.iso.certification/
>
>>> That's all for now, Any and all answers appreciated.
>>> --
>>
>> I've answered as much as I knew.
>
>> regards
>> Arjun
>
> Thank you for taking the effort.
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Shirish Agarwal
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