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

[Jerome Gotangco]

Same with Ubuntu and Gentoo. I think it's just not strong enough to do  
CPU intensive work like flash. Even firefox is a hog. But I think this  
is also caused by running from the SD which may have limited data  
bandwidth to the mainboard itself


Jerome

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On 12 12, 08, at 5:54 AM, "Carlos Nazareno" <object404 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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...
>
> -- 
> Carlos Nazareno
> http://www.object404.com
>
> interactive media specialist
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