[OLPC-Philippines] OLPC-Philippines Digest, Vol 14, Issue 3

[Carlos Nazareno]

2008/12/10 Timothy Martinez <timhack007 at gmail.com>:
> How I wish if I could also add compiz fusion. I will try it
> tomorrow if I will have some spare time.

For the love of all that is good and holy, please don't! hahah :P

Okay, do let us know if you do get it working and how the little
machine performs afterwards (zomg! wobbly windows on the XO! :D)

I think it would be great if we could all use a standardized benchmark
app for the XO so we could see how it performs with different OS
configurations installed :)

Ah, I have one test you guys can try:

For those who've tinkered around with alternative OS installs/configs
on the XO, can you try installing the Adobe Flash 10 browser plugin
then see if youtube videos play?

On XO-OS Sugar/Fedora 9 default, they just don't play at acceptable
levels: sound plays fine, but the video is basically a slideshow.

It would be really great if you guys can test this out.

Thanks!

-Naz

Oh, btw, Jerome, were you able to get resolutions other than 1200x900
working on the XO on Intrepid? If so, were they full-screen resampling
versions instead of "smaller window areas" like with SCUMMVM which
will just shrink to a small 640x480 resolution area in the middle of
the screen with huge black borders all around?

Btw, how much total space did the install eat?

I find XO-Fedora 10's nearly 4GB initial install and the flat-out
requirement of a 4GB SD Card just nuts :-/

What the heck did they install in that thing? Even Win2k and WinXP
doesn't eat up that much space on the outset :-/

Then again, Linux distros these days come with a slew of apps on the outset...

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Carlos Nazareno
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