Re: Announcing the development of OLPC OS 13.2.1

2014-06-13 Thread James Cameron
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 w

Re: Announcing the development of OLPC OS 13.2.1

2014-06-13 Thread Sebastian Silva
The main hurdle would be the DRM. no volunteer can possibly help where "security" is enabled. In Peru we had to lobby the government for the crypto keys but it might not be possible with smaller deployments that only have OLPC keys, then it might make sense to have a mechanism for James or OLPC

Re: Announcing the development of OLPC OS 13.2.1

2014-06-13 Thread Paul Fox
not speaking for james or olpc, i think this sounds like a request for a volunteer project, and not something that should be directed at james. paul tony wrote: > Hi, James > > It would also be very helpful to have a release 12.2.0 for the XO-1. > This release would incorporate > the liber

Re: Announcing the development of OLPC OS 13.2.1

2014-06-13 Thread Adam Holt
Courageous Tony, speaking up for the uncountable voiceless around the world keeping XO-1s in operation, long after their stated 5-year design life. In Haiti as in other places, derivatives of Release 12.1.0 have been found to be a genuine lifeline for XO-1s, with Releases 13.* too slow for teacher

Re: Announcing the development of OLPC OS 13.2.1

2014-06-13 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, James It would also be very helpful to have a release 12.2.0 for the XO-1. This release would incorporate the libertas patch and correct the firmware version. Perhaps the ds-backup.sh and ds-backup.py could be replaced with versions that correct the reported problems. If politically accept