[sugar] OLPC News (2008-02-09) - "9. HW/SW Development"
Kent Loobey
kent at uoregon.edu
Sat Feb 9 15:41:45 EST 2008
On Saturday 09 February 2008 08:39:33 Walter Bender wrote:
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> 9. HW/SW Development: This week the first 100 G1G1 users had Build 656
> pushed to them automatically. We are only pushing this build to people
> running Build 649, 650, or 653. Basic information about update streams
> (and how to unsubscribe your laptop) is available in the wiki (See
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Update_streams). Expect to see Build 656
> pushed more broadly over the coming weeks.
I just got my XO so I am really new to the whole OLPC/XO everything.
Because I couldn't connect to my WPA with the build that came with my XO I
spent a couple of days updating from build 650 to build 656. So the above
plan seems strange to me. I have a slow DSL connection. It took me
literally several hours to download 656. I tried several different methods
of updating before I found a way (with a lot of help from #olpc) to complete
the update. One of the ways I tried took over 4 hours to download 656.
My point is that I wouldn't want something like this to start automatically if
it required me to keep connected once it started. If it would break the
download automatically over a period of time until it was all collected and
then allow me to say when it would do the actual install that would be fine.
I can imagine that some places in the world would be even more iffy .
Since I didn't do the update the way it is defined in step 9 above, I don't
know if it is done as I suggest or not. Maybe this is just for the G1G1
computers and that some other process is used in the other countries.
I understand that I can set a state on my XO that will stop automatic
updating. My question then becomes is there a listserve that I can sign up
on to inform me of new updates? Something that doesn't have any other
dialog, just announcements.
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> -walter
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