I read that OpenSolaris can be booted from EFI machines such as Sun and Apple
machines.
Belenix is a LiveCD based on OpenSolaris.
Is it possible to boot OpenSolaris from OLPC?
Is it possible to use OpenSolaris in OLPC with external USB storage without ZFS?
From OpenSolaris discussion board:
In 1990s IBM released a Windows NT competitor called OS/2 that can run MS-DOS,
Windows 3.1 and Windows NT applications (using special method). Now Serenity
Systems had bought OS/2 from IBM and market it as Ecomstation.
http://www.ecomstation.com
Collection of freeware/shareware OS/2
No VGA/EGA/CGA.
This is some sort of free VESA BIOS and the author said the source code can be
ported to Linux platform:
http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/freebe/
Another option is virtual graphics card (VGC) from Displaylink. The actual
chipset is located on remote display unit such as Samsung
Lack of standard BIOS
Because XO Laptops are sold to the public using Buy 2 Get 1, IMO there should
be a warning to buyer that the machine does not have standard BIOS and cannot
run unmodified Linux, BSD, Haiku or other Operating System.
Can the consumer buy additional commercial BIOS from
Booting to console mode / svgalib possible
Can someone put a wiki / HOWTO about booting OLPC to console mode, setting up
svgalib, SDL, xinit command and xinitrc?
Lack of FreeDOS because of BIOS
With console mode, IMO it is possible to run DOS Emulator such as DosEMU +
FreeDOS or DOSbox with
No VGA/EGA/CGA on OLPC
According to DOSBox manual:
Dosbox emulates the CPU, the sound and graphic cards, and some other stuff,
all at the same time. VGA emulation is the most demanding part of dosbox in
terms of actual CPU usage
DOSBox use SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) library for accessing
I often use Linux without any X-Windows, but only svgalib: mplayer, links 2.0
browser, mp3blaster, etc. On FreeDOS (Free Disk Operating System), I can use
display, arachne, pppd etc.
Because OLPC is sold to general public using Buy 2 Get 1 G1G1, is it possible
to customize OLPC:
1. Disable
