Hello Samuel, Thanks for your work :)
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Samuel Greenfeld <sam...@greenfeld.org> wrote: > I spent a few hours this past weekend looking into if third-party XO OS > builds were still possible. > > The result is a set of unsigned XO laptop images for XO-1/1.5/1.75/4 I > have uploaded to http://www.greenfeld.org/xo/community/builds/14/1/ > > This is the first time images may have been made for certain models this > release cycle. So this release has bugs, and is meant only for testing. > The XO-1 image in particular should be avoided unless you are trying to > solve its performance problems. > > These images were created independently of OLPC and are not supported by > OLPC. > > Bug reports about these images can be filed in dev.laptop.org with the > "commbuild" keyword. However other members of the community are needed to > help fix problems as my skills are limited. > > > If you would prefer to use the latest OLPC-provided open-source build, it > can be found at http://build.laptop.org/14.1.0/os8/ > > > Known improvements (from usage/researching changelogs): > > - All: The GNOME desktop has been replaced by MATE. > - All: Wikipedia EN and ES have been replaced by the Simple English > Wikipedia activity. > - All: The latest Open Firmware for each platform. > - All: Based on Fedora 20 & Sugar 0.103.2 with most Fedora updates as > of early February 2015. > > There is Sugar 0.104.0 now, http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.104/Notes > - > - All (userland)/XO-4(OFW): Brightness adjustments for an upcoming > manufacturing backlight LED change. Laptops with new backlights will be > identified by a "BL" manufacturing tag. Routines to handle earlier > backlights exist. Note there may be some more backlight tweaks in the next > version of powerd. > - XO-4: Support for newer and larger eMMC internal storage options. > - XO-4: LiPoly battery support (instead of NiMH). > - XO-4: Dual core CPU Support. > > Known issues: > > - All: This is not a "restricted" build, and does not have any > licensed codec/binaries/video drivers some deployments may want. > - All: Sugar asks for a user's grade and gender. If this is sent over > the Internet, this may not be legal in many countries without the > appropriate parent/school permissions. > > Sugar does not send any information to the internet, but we can provide a way to disable/skip that screen. > > - > These images therefore probably should not be given to children until > we have a better understanding of what is going on. > - All: The Sugar Language control panel appears to be broken. > > This works fine on sugar-build but as soon as I get back at home, I will take a look with an XO. Maybe you can send over some logs? > > - > - All: MATE has the same large text/dpi display problems GNOME had if > not worse. > - All: Originally a private RPM repository was created for several x86 > RPMs where only ARM ones existed. The relevant x86 ones have since been > built and the last RPM I'm told isn't needed, so a private repository > should not be required going forward. > > - XO-1: NetworkManager and systemd-journald use up most of the CPU > logging repeated failed actions against the mesh(?) network adapter, > leaving too little CPU for Sugar to work with. > > Some other services may also be using CPU, but these seem to be the > most persistent (OLPC #12860). > - XO-1: MATE, Simple English Wikipedia, and Physics were removed to > conserve space while debugging the above. There may only be room for > either MATE or Simple Wikipedia with a more complete build, as this only > leaves ~100 MB free. > - XO-1: There is no "G1G1Lite"-style activity set at this time. > > - XO-1.5: Camera and/or video overlay support appears to be broken > (OLPC #12858). > - XO-1.5: Automatic suspend is disabled in this build due to the DCON > freezing the text console instead of the graphical UI (OLPC #12859). > - XO-1.5: This build may be too large for 2 GB SD cards (not tested, > but observed). > > - XO-1.75: If you have one of the rare XO-1.75s with a touchscreen, > the latest versions of OFW do not have "test /touchscreen" support (and may > not have for some time). > > - XO-4: Programs may randomly crash due to OLPC #12837. So building > 14.1.0 on an XO-4 using 14.1.0 currently is not supported. > - XO-4: Due to Open Firmware and EC updates to support LiPoly > batteries, XO-4s with newer firmware no longer are compatible with NiMH > batteries (rare and should only affect users with pre-release SKUs). > - XO-4: If you wish to downgrade from this OS to 13.2.2 or prior, you > need to reinstall an Open Firmware version in the Q7B* series, such as > Q7B44 or earlier (Q7B40 or earlier with NiMH). > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > >
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