Hi Tim, > As soon as I heard that OLPC was moving to ARM, I winced > slightly. This is going to make life much more difficult, because > of our longstanding Linux, Python and recent GNOME heritage. What > is Sugar Labs' role with the XO-3+?
I don't understand -- the XO-3 (and XO-1.5) will run Linux, Python and Sugar, as described in Ed's e-mail at the start of this thread. What has become much more difficult? > ARM chip architecture makes a lot of sense from a power > perspective, but that was also the case when x86 was chosen for > the XO-1. Perhaps even more so, as Intel has been steadily > increasing the power friendliness of its x86 chips, with Atom & > so forth. The cost savings with ARM is significant, too. > I guess I'm going to need to learn to love curly braces :/ I don't see why. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[email protected]> One Laptop Per Child _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
