Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-31 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Tim McNamara paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz wrote: On 26 May 2010 06:16, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: Hello everyone, we've just started a new development cycle aimed

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-31 Thread Bernie Innocenti
El Mon, 31-05-2010 a las 08:19 +1200, Tim McNamara escribió: Just for my knowledge, does Fedora have an equivalent to Ubuntu's long-term support releases? Yes, it's called Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and it comes with commercial support. If you want a free-beer equivalent with no guarantees,

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-31 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
It would be good to improve the situation, but as was discussed in the past, yum does not seem to work very well on the XO. Manually tracking the relevant upstream security updates would require some effort. My own preference is to not work with static software - but to apply as many updates

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-30 Thread Tim McNamara
On 26 May 2010 06:16, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: Hello everyone, we've just started a new development cycle aimed at providing Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1. Our focus is stability and usability for

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-30 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
CentOS ? On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Tim McNamara paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nzwrote: On 26 May 2010 06:16, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: Hello everyone, we've just started a new development

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-30 Thread David Farning
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Tim McNamara paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz wrote: On 26 May 2010 06:16, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: Hello everyone, we've just started a new development cycle aimed

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-26 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 23:12, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: El Tue, 25-05-2010 a las 19:16 +0100, Peter Robinson escribió: Is F-11 still the base OS for this? Unfortunately, this build is still based on

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-26 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@tomeuvizoso.net wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 23:12, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: El Tue, 25-05-2010 a las 19:16 +0100, Peter Robinson escribió: Is

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-26 Thread Bernie Innocenti
El Wed, 26-05-2010 a las 09:29 +0100, Peter Robinson escribió: I'm happy to hear this. F14 may bring interesting changes for the XO1, can we hope that support for the Geode won't have been dropped by then? There was a bug report [1] that was filed about it to do with glibc. Since I last

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-26 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: El Wed, 26-05-2010 a las 09:29 +0100, Peter Robinson escribió: I'm happy to hear this. F14 may bring interesting changes for the XO1, can we hope that support for the Geode won't have been dropped by then? There

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-26 Thread Daniel Drake
On 25 May 2010 18:12, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: That's not entirely true. The was no changes in CPU support from F-12 to F-13. What has happened was a change in gcc which causes issues with F-13 on geode processors. There's a bit missing from gcc for geode support that would

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-26 Thread Bernie Innocenti
El Wed, 26-05-2010 a las 12:00 -0300, Daniel Drake escribió: As has been pointed out, there is some kernel code floating around that is working in this direction. However, it's not totally correct and the kernel developers want a more generic system rather than something Geode-specific. And

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-25 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: Hello everyone, we've just started a new development cycle aimed at providing Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1. Our focus is stability and usability for deployments, although we're also attempting to merge a couple of low-risk

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-25 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 05/25/2010 08:16 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Bernie Innocentiber...@codewiz.org wrote: Hello everyone, we've just started a new development cycle aimed at providing Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1. Our focus is stability and usability for deployments, although

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-25 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: On 05/25/2010 08:16 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Bernie Innocentiber...@codewiz.org  wrote: Hello everyone, we've just started a new development cycle aimed at providing Sugar 0.88

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-25 Thread Bernie Innocenti
El Tue, 25-05-2010 a las 19:16 +0100, Peter Robinson escribió: Is F-11 still the base OS for this? Unfortunately, this build is still based on Fedora 11. Fedora 13 dropped support for the Geode processor, so it's not an option. Upgrading to Fedora 12 would be possible, but there are unsolved

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-25 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: El Tue, 25-05-2010 a las 19:16 +0100, Peter Robinson escribió: Is F-11 still the base OS for this? Unfortunately, this build is still based on Fedora 11. Fedora 13 dropped support for the Geode processor, so it's