[OLPC-Philippines] New Year Meetup

[Carlos Nazareno]

Fail yung Intrepid sakin w/ Ridata Class 6 4GB.

re: alternate distros,

let's propose a project for testing and dev'ing alternate distros .

As you know from my posts sa devel lists, Journal has its failures
which render it unusable, and for people who are not small kids, XO OS
+ Sugar can be less efficient to use.

Let's make a proposal to do heavy testing of alternate distros. Like
maybe we can work with Teapot.

I'm in touch with DISCS at AdMU and they're done playing with the unit
I lent them na. I'll see if Doc Mana is interested in working with the
stuff Teapot has to make an extremely lightweight version of Ubuntu
optimized for the XO and that will maybe work on other UMPCs din.

Have gotten in touch with many other guys na rin, and the point I
raised is that ano ba talaga yung payload?

Content.

The XO is just a delivery mechanism. The important thing is to get a
proper curriculum working in tandem with DepEd and with the help
hopefully of the major universities and other institutions.

As you know rin naman, XO-1 is not going to be the only platform
forever. Like there's the proposed XO-2 which I think is going to be
focused on even better now.

Basta ako, I'm focusing on building apps and content that is
cross-platform, para maski ano mang gamiting laptop or what have you,
gagana.

This is an education project, not a laptop project.

I think we can spearhead a project/wiki din on how well different SD
Cards play well with the XO. That would help everyone a lot, and it's
pretty ideal for us to do it here in the Ph because we have access to
a very wide variety of SD Cards that are pretty cheap.

I'm probably dropping by Ortigas thursday afternoon or evening. You
work there, right Jerome? Can we meet up, maski punta ako sa office
niyo, mga 30mins lang?

Cheers

-Naz

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Jerome Gotangco <jgotangco at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Carlos Nazareno <object404 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'd like to discuss running alternate distros on the XO, like Ubuntu
>> Intrepid Ibex, Fedora 10, and DebXO, and getting content on them.
>
> Honestly I don't see any reason to do this mainstream as most of the
> implementations are slow to begin with and doing anything web related
> is just a terrible experience. Although using less resource intensive
> apps like say Abiword, GCalc and stuff are usable.
>
>> Jerome, Rowen, can we share experiences? I still haven't gotten
>> intrepid running, I think it's my memcard... the XO doesn't like it...
>> -> 4gb class 6 Ridata brand :-/
>
> Some cards really don't boot at all. I have a Sandisk 2GB and 4GB that
> doesn't power up on boot so it doesn't work while a generic CD-R King
> 4GB Class 6 works flawlessly. Go figure.
>
> --
> Jerome G.
>
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