Re: [IAEP] Possible ARM based alternative to the XO?
Le samedi 02 avril 2011 à 00:33 -0400, William Schaub a écrit : > I recently purchased a Genesi Efika MX smartbook > (https://www.genesi-usa.com/products/smartbook) and so far I'm very > impressed with it. > it only costs about $199 before shipping and it seems to have enough > power to outdo the XO-1 laptops that I have. > > what do you think about the possibility of using the Efika as a readily > available alternative to the XO? > we might even be able to get it in a more ruggedized form if we are lucky. > > I have made an sd card image that boots directly into a sugar desktop on > the Efika MX if anyone is interested and already has the hardware > once the kernel gets bumped past 2.6.31 I would like to try getting > 802.11s working on it to see if I can make it talk to my other two XO-1s. > > if you are interested I will post a link to the sd card image. > Another ARM based hardware platform running Sugar is the Toshiba AC100. Its processor is a Cortex A9 (which is similar to the Efika Netbook). installed Sugar (0.88.1) on it, on top of Ubuntu 10.10 [1]. Another nice feature, is that the AC100 and the Efika MX are able to run OO4Kids [2] too. [1] http://salaliitto.com/~gildean/ac100/wiki/phh/ [2] http://blog.educoo.org/2011/02/18/port-arm-dooo4kids-et-dooolight-educooo-prepare-aussi-le-futur > ___ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Possible ARM based alternative to the XO?
On 04/02/2011 01:38 AM, Frederick Grose wrote: On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 12:33 AM, William Schaub mailto:wsch...@steubentech.com>> wrote: I recently purchased a Genesi Efika MX smartbook (https://www.genesi-usa.com/products/smartbook) and so far I'm very impressed with it. it only costs about $199 before shipping and it seems to have enough power to outdo the XO-1 laptops that I have. what do you think about the possibility of using the Efika as a readily available alternative to the XO? we might even be able to get it in a more ruggedized form if we are lucky. I have made an sd card image that boots directly into a sugar desktop on the Efika MX if anyone is interested and already has the hardware once the kernel gets bumped past 2.6.31 I would like to try getting 802.11s working on it to see if I can make it talk to my other two XO-1s. if you are interested I will post a link to the sd card image. Yes, please share your good efforts with a reference and link in our Supported Systems page, http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Supported_systems Interested parties may discover the information there if they aren't searching the mailing list. --Fred As promised the link to get the Sugar demo is http://steubentech.com/~talon/Efika-MX/ I will post an update to the wiki soon and move the discussion to the sugar-devel list. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Possible ARM based alternative to the XO?
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 12:33 AM, William Schaub wrote: > I recently purchased a Genesi Efika MX smartbook ( > https://www.genesi-usa.com/products/smartbook) and so far I'm very > impressed with it. > it only costs about $199 before shipping and it seems to have enough power > to outdo the XO-1 laptops that I have. > > what do you think about the possibility of using the Efika as a readily > available alternative to the XO? > we might even be able to get it in a more ruggedized form if we are lucky. > > I have made an sd card image that boots directly into a sugar desktop on > the Efika MX if anyone is interested and already has the hardware > once the kernel gets bumped past 2.6.31 I would like to try getting 802.11s > working on it to see if I can make it talk to my other two XO-1s. > > if you are interested I will post a link to the sd card image. > Yes, please share your good efforts with a reference and link in our Supported Systems page, http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Supported_systems Interested parties may discover the information there if they aren't searching the mailing list. --Fred ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Possible ARM based alternative to the XO?
I recently purchased a Genesi Efika MX smartbook (https://www.genesi-usa.com/products/smartbook) and so far I'm very impressed with it. it only costs about $199 before shipping and it seems to have enough power to outdo the XO-1 laptops that I have. what do you think about the possibility of using the Efika as a readily available alternative to the XO? we might even be able to get it in a more ruggedized form if we are lucky. I have made an sd card image that boots directly into a sugar desktop on the Efika MX if anyone is interested and already has the hardware once the kernel gets bumped past 2.6.31 I would like to try getting 802.11s working on it to see if I can make it talk to my other two XO-1s. if you are interested I will post a link to the sd card image. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
