[OLPC India] Windows on OLPC XO 1.5

[Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn]

This attach image is a photograph taked with my cel in 2010.This photo shows an XO with Windows XP and another with Sugar.
In Uruguay, when "Plan Ceibal" (uruguayan implementation de OLPC) begins, appears inthe scene the posibility of the high school computers uses Windows / Sugar / GnomeIn the departament of "Treinta y Tres" was made a pilot program of 5000 XO-1 withWindows.I'm not know about the official results of that, but I know that now, "Plan Ceibal" uses Sugarin XO-1 for primary schools, and XO-1.5 with Sugar/Gnome for high schools.
I use that XO with Windows for some hours and get this conclusions:
- The space: the XO-1 have only 1 GB of flash disk.. I'm not sure why, for convenience or space; thewindows, is put an external SD (in that case, of 4 GB)- The speed: some people think about the "poor" 233 mhz of the XO CPU, but, sugar works relativegood. Windows are very very slow: to open a folder, a program, etc.- The memory: 256 MB are good, but only windows takes one hundred or more. And aditional software that is needed for the poor security of windows (an antivirus) takes some memory more..-Sugar an XO have a special communion: the software is design for the hardware, and the hardwarefor the software: you have a display that allows read perfect out in a sundy day: the activities uses a black and white (high contrast) style that increase the effectiveness of that display.. the XO have the "mesh/ad hoc" network that the activities takes an special advantage: the collaboration between some computers.. etc.. windows not have nothing of that!
That discussion can continue a lot of days..
Regards!
Alan

> Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 01:13:24 -0400
> From: joshuagay at gmail.com
> To: walter.bender at gmail.com; sjha at vsnl.com
> CC: India at lists.laptop.org
> Subject: Re: [OLPC India] Windows on OLPC XO 1.5
> 
> Just sharing a somewhat minor/theoretical side-point ... MSFT has announced (and made clear) that all ARM based windows 8 machines must implement the full UEFI spec and to do so in such a way that it restricts/prevents a user from signing their own firmware or disabling UEFI Secure Boot (or ... So if there is a miracle of engineering and some n this case, it is better referred to as 'restricted boot'). 
> 
> So, if a Windows 8 machine is ported to an XO on ARM architecture, then this means that a person could neither dual boot nor replace Windows 8 with Linux plus GNU-and/or-Sugar. 
> 
> Josh
> 
> Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Satish Jha <sjha at vsnl.com> wrote:
> >> Walter,
> >>
> >> At this stage I am not even looking for rationale. Anyone trying to reach an
> >> audience has to address their concerns. They will learn the way they do. Can
> >> you force their learning?
> >>
> >> We can conclude India is not ready or walk with India at the pace it learns.
> >>
> >> Puritanism has its charm and consequences for those we want to help. That
> >> has kept OLPC from 5 batches of India's children and 95 percent of them get
> >> little education worth anything that help them join the world as we know.
> >>
> >> What do you suggest? Keep them from the dreams that olpc dreamt but could
> >> not even share with those it dreamt for?
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel
> >>
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> >
> >At its heart, this is a technical issue. It is not obvious that
> >Windows 8 can run on the XO hardware. And if it is possible, it will
> >require a significant investment to do the port. So asking for a
> >rationale for making this investment is not a matter of Puratism, it
> >is a mater of pragmatism.
> >
> >regards.
> >
> >-walter
> >
> >-- 
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