I don't speak for OLPC, but I am working for them. As we're not producing XO-1 laptops at the moment, I can't really spend money on XO-1 work when there is XO-1.75 and XO-4 work to be done. The new camera is compatible with the XO-1, and it is the new camera driving the release.
Any deployment wanting what Tony has asked for in a 12.1.1 can ask OLPC for a quote, or get someone else to do it. I recommend getting someone else to do it. Someone else has already made a customised 12.1.0, called HaitiOS, albeit without the tools that OLPC recommended, and thus it cannot be signed. No, I would not sign images we did not build, but I would be happy to take changes for a future release. Regarding the 12.1.0 vs 13.2.0 debate that Adam keeps raising, the underlying problem is more about management of expectations. The teachers and students were probably not involved in development, didn't get an early chance to point out the regression, and so Adam was burned. I find 12.1.0 as slow as 13.2.0, so I can't recommend it for XO-1 unless Gnome is used instead of Sugar. Some have said it was the fault of GTK3 migration, but I don't think so, as 12.1.0 had GTK3. I've seen a comparison table of activity startup time that was used to support Adam's position. I don't think it is useful, it was not peer reviewed by developers, it didn't take into account caching effects, and didn't measure the underlying problem, which was a lack of memory. And that's what it is. The problem is entirely a lack of memory. Adding swap to 13.2.0 fixes all the problems for me. There's probably quite a few things that can be done to trim the memory usage further. I just don't see anybody doing it. Instead people have repackaged the politically acceptable upstream version. Any forward looking attempt to support XO-1 should start with the Fedora 20 builds by Daniel Narvaez, identify the problems, and work on them. Where the storage is insufficient, the build could be installed on external SD card. Making that work looks like a trivial technical problem; rewriting a shell script. It won't scale though, because of the problems with the SD controller on the XO-1. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
