I'm surprisingly happy with the XO laptop keyboard. After only a day of practice, I've acclimated enough to be productive. How do you swap out the window manager?
Jake On Dec 23, 2007 1:33 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Danilo, > > > I'm a student at State University of Campinas, Brazil. I'm researching > > efficient implementation of Elliptic Curve Cryptography in constrained > > environments. I'm working with an ARM XScale PXA270 platform but would > > like also to work with a x86-based constrained platform. I think the > > OLPC laptop is an interesting option for many reasons. > > > > I'd like to know if one of those laptops of the Give One Get One program > > are suitable for software development? I guess so, but would like to be > > sure. > > > > Do I need any special hardware or cable to connect to the OLPC laptop > > from my desktop? A telnet or SSH connection is all I need. > > It highly depends on what you want to develop and how. From what > you described, you are not interested in developing software for for > Sugar. If so, you can certainly replace the window manager to, say, > twm and start a terminal emulator to use the X Window System in > somewhat more conventional way. > > The size of your program won't be too large, so GCC should be fine > to compile your software with the memory XO have. You can of course > compile your software on another computer and copy to run. > > > I want real timings, so I think an emulated solution would not be > > suitable. > > It sounds like you will want/need to do some assembly language > programming. Geode LX has some features to generate random number > sequences (and AES accelarator). I thought it has some statistic > counter stuff, but don't know how to use it (or I don't know what it > is, in fact). > > As others wrote, the XO keyboard is not great... But I'd say with > some training, it is not unusable. So it is conceivable to do the > whole development on XO. > > (What are the "many reasons" that makes it an interesting option for > you?) > > -- Yoshiki > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
