Hi. I'm an OLPC fanatic, joyride addict, intermittent support-gangster, and occasional bug-reporter. I recently had the opportunity to compare Update.1 and Joyride (I needed to reflash to a signed image to retrieve my lost developer key), and I noticed some things:
1. The UI is looking very slick in Joyride. It feels less toy-like, in a good sense -- things are easier to find, and better-organized. 2. Certain normally grumpy aspects of the operating system work remarkably better in Joyride. Power management works, to the extent where it "Does The Right Thing" nearly all the time, and I rarely worry about recharging my XO every day. Wireless, too, works better, and NetworkManager is much more obedient than it used to be. 3. Joyride is actually more stable -- I don't see random hangs or user-visible glitches as much. I'd guess, from my own use, that Joyride has actually surpassed Update.1 in stability, even given Joyride's bleeding-edge nature. That, combined with all the improvements and new features, makes it even better! I know you guys are trying to make the XO software great, so I thought you might want to know that, from a (relative) outsider's perspective, your work is looking amazing, and has shown tremendous improvement. Keep up the good work! Cheers, Thomas Tuttle _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
