Free software for an ARM tablet?

2010-05-29 Thread John Gilmore
If somebody gets Android running on a tablet and that somebody actually honors the GPL, it's likely that much of the work of a real Linux port has been done. Except that I've heard from a very credible source that in existing Android *phones* there are 9 pieces of essential yet proprietary

Re: [Sugar-devel] Chat sharing errors

2010-05-29 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: I just connected wirelessly 1- ) Mirabelle USB Started Chat as shared in Mirabelle 2- )Blueberry.vmx Joined 3- ) XO-1 os230py  (Sugar 0.88.0) Joined XO-1 saw all connections colors and text Blueberry

Re: Free software for an ARM tablet?

2010-05-29 Thread imm
I don't have a voice here, but I have spent a while playing with Moblin (and more recently MeeGo), and also with the Android SDK's. (Caveat: this was for an experimental platform I have been trying out; I have actually written exactly 0 useful apps with either platform...) FWIW, then, I'd

Re: [Sugar-devel] New release of F11 for the XO-1 is available for testing - OS13

2010-05-29 Thread rihowa...@gmail.com
Steve, I just noticed that the http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_XO-1 page has not been updated with information about and pointing to the OS13 build. Is this intentional? By the way thank you for the builds. Robert H. rihowa...@gmail.com On Mar 27, 2010, at 5:53 AM, Steven M.

os240py - collaboration over wireless

2010-05-29 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Simple test of collaboration using two Sugar-0.88_on_F11 XO-1 systems: I don't know why os240py has three 'Mesh' icons in Neighborhood View. The systems connected automatically on Mesh channel 1 -- they showed each other in Neighborhood View, and I could 'ping' between them. BUT, Activities

Re: os240py - collaboration over wireless

2010-05-29 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
[Disclaimer: What I am currently exploring is how sugar0.88-on-XO1 behaves. I do not do much testing of system-to-system collaboration on released builds, so I do not have a base line to compare against.] Left the setup (with two os240py systems talking to each other over a new wireless network)