Re: [Sugar-devel] Announce: OLPC software strategy.

2010-07-08 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
Hi Chris, Well done to the team for all the hard work! Now that the 10.1.1 release for XO-1.5 is out, it's a good time to talk about OLPC's software strategy for the future.  We've got a few announcements to make: XO-1: = OLPC wasn't planning to make a Fedora 11 release of the XO-1

Re: [IAEP] Announce: OLPC software strategy.

2010-07-08 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 00:01, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: Hi, Now that the 10.1.1 release for XO-1.5 is out, it's a good time to talk about OLPC's software strategy for the future.  We've got a few announcements to make: XO-1: = OLPC wasn't planning to make a Fedora 11 release

Re: [IAEP] Announce: OLPC software strategy.

2010-07-08 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 11:02 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Congratulations on the excellent work done to date by you all and on the sound (and well communicated) plan. I couldn't agree more. On top of this, interaction between OLPC, the Fedora community and the Sugar Labs community has been

Important change in olpc-os-builder procedure

2010-07-08 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, With the purpose of allowing deployments to reconstruct and customize OLPC OS releases, we documented the process of checking out the latest version of olpc-os-builder from git and using it to construct OLPC OS images, and I gave some sessions on this process at various deployments. I've

Re: USB2VGA adapters on XO-1.5 (and XO-1 with F11 images)

2010-07-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Updated olpc-usbvgamirror with tweaks for better performance. For monitors/projectors that can handle 800x600 or 1024x768, the VNC approach is the best we can do. For monitors/projectors that can handle something

New XO-1 10.1.2 build 300

2010-07-08 Thread Chris Ball
http://build.laptop.org/10.1.2/xo-1/os300/ Here's the first build in our 10.1.2 F11/XO-1 release stream, as promised yesterday. Thanks to Daniel Drake for working on getting this started! This is an unsigned build, so to install it you need to: ok copy-nand u:\os300.img with the os300.img

Re: New XO-1 10.1.2 build 300

2010-07-08 Thread Daniel Drake
To answer a few inevitable questions: This is F11 + Sugar 0.84 + GNOME 2.26, for XO-1. It's unsigned, meaning that you need a developer key to install it. I think OLPC will start producing signed betas soon. It's similar to recent builds made by Steven Parrish, and the 0.84 variant of the

Re: New XO-1 10.1.2 build 300

2010-07-08 Thread Daniel Drake
If anyone is in a power-measuring mode, it would be nice to measure the power usage when the Record activity is active and displaying the live feed, and compare it to measurements of the same situation on 8.2.1 build 802. We have halved the amount of data coming from the camera which will

Re: New XO-1 10.1.2 build 300

2010-07-08 Thread pbrobin...@gmail.com
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: It's particularly significant because (when the release goes final) it means we have synchronized software between XO-1 and XO-1.5. Are we

Re: New XO-1 10.1.2 build 300

2010-07-08 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, Are we aiming for a synchronised 10.1.2 for XO-1 and XO-1.5? Yep. See yesterday's announcement for more wording. - Chris. -- Chris Ball c...@laptop.org One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: New XO-1 10.1.2 build 300

2010-07-08 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 04:07:12PM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: It's particularly significant because (when the release goes final) it means we have synchronized software between XO-1 and XO-1.5. Are we aiming for a