>On a final note: > "Additionally, the Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu software environments run > on the XO-1, adding support for tens of thousands of free software > applications." > > I am terrified at the thought that the rest of this press release > might be anywhere near as disingenuous as this statement. No part of > it is actually untrue, but all of it is misleading. Hell, there has > yet to be a single build of the OLPC distro that is feature-complete > -- and I can tell you from personal experience that Debian, Fedora, > Slackware, and many other operating systems can *run* but aren't > *practical.*
To clarify things, "Ubuntu-on-XO" project is basically three or four guys who don't know each other, releasing tarballs and installation instructions, and about half a dozen people on bulletin boards sharing scripts and configuration files. I happen to be among them (I prepared a Hardy/Xfce installation tarballs and made tweaks for GUI, configuration and Youtube-related script/packages), but I really don't deserve any significant credit for the minimal amount of work I have done, the amount of work is minimal, and there is no organization or coordination behind it. Ubuntu Sugar packages are a more significant step, though they aren't even related to XO hardware. I haven't even looked at the SD problem despite the fact that I recommended SD as the installation media (just made sure that power management does not kick in), and I am actually a kernel developer myself, so it's closer to my primary expertise than tweaking boot process, choosing the "right" init, repainting icons and resizing scrollbars. -- Alex _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
