Re: skype on XO-1.75

2011-10-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:15 AM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: Installing Skype on the XO-1.75 using the instructions at wiki.laptop.org/go/Skype does not work. As others have pointed out, Skype (the company) does not publish a skype-for-linux, ARM version. AIUI, they will never do so, and

Re: [Gnash-dev] rpms for OLPC XO 1.75

2011-10-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
That's really good news! Rob, we can ship you a few more B1 units, if that helps make bricking less of an issue :-) We are looking into a (partial?) rebuild of the rpmfusion repo to see how it works with ffmpeg in. Might take some time... cheers, m On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Chris

New q2f series XO-1 firmware needs testing

2011-10-20 Thread Richard A. Smith
Over the past 2 years XO-1 EC firmware has been held at pq2e34 which was released in March of 2009. During that time the EC XO-1 code evolved into the trees for XO-1.5 and then into EC-1.75. Many, many, many fixes and improvements to the codebase have happened since pq2e34. The new RTC

Re: skype on XO-1.75

2011-10-20 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:15 AM,  fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: Installing Skype on the XO-1.75 using the instructions at wiki.laptop.org/go/Skype does not work. As others have pointed out, Skype (the

Re: skype on XO-1.75

2011-10-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 6:10 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: Agreed, I think a Video Chat Activity might be out best bet. We're already got it on the gnome side. You mean ekiga? It's been fairly disappointing to me in the past... Or something else? meego has both softfp and

Re: skype on XO-1.75

2011-10-20 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 6:10 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: Agreed, I think a Video Chat Activity might be out best bet. We're already got it on the gnome side. You mean ekiga? It's been fairly

Re: skype on XO-1.75

2011-10-20 Thread Chris Leonard
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 6:10 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.comwrote: One good piece of news is that Skype isn't the only game in town. Google-talk-plugin has been my friend lately, and competes with Skype plenty in my personal usage (it's the plugin behind gmail/gchat voice +

Re: skype on XO-1.75

2011-10-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote: Some folks from RIT have already Sugarized something (not that I've ever tried it) I also have no idea whether it would work on an XO 1.75 Open Video Chat 1 http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4305

Re: [Gnash-dev] rpms for OLPC XO 1.75

2011-10-20 Thread Rob Savoye
On 10/20/11 03:59, Martin Langhoff wrote: That's really good news! Rob, we can ship you a few more B1 units, if that helps make bricking less of an issue :-) It was mostly a matter of finding the right combination of firmware, OS, etc... I think some of the web pages are out of date... but

Re: skype on XO-1.75

2011-10-20 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote: Some folks from RIT have already Sugarized something (not that I've ever tried it) I also have no idea whether it would work on an

Sugar Labs Annual ELECTION - Please Register Now (Nov 7 Deadline!)

2011-10-20 Thread Holt
1) Help us elect the best people to keep Sugar growing in most meaningful ways around the world -- add your name here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Members/List /Just send your name and an explanation of your contribution to Sugar Labs in an email to

Re: skype on XO-1.75

2011-10-20 Thread Yannis Kaskamanidis
I use 26 laptops in my classroom and I want to upgrade them in 11.2.0 release, but it hasn't got Greek language. I followed the procedure herehttp://wiki.laptop.org/go/OS_Builderto add the Greek language and it produced two files (os9uim and os9.onu). Then I put them in a usb stick and I started

opportunistic suspend article on LWN

2011-10-20 Thread Peter Robinson
I know we do this (or similar) on the XOs, it seems there's a discussion on it upstream. Not sure if its worth reviewing to ensure our requirements are met as part of that. I know it won't affect us now but we know its something that will likely come and bite us later, might be worthwhile if that

Re: skype on XO-1.75

2011-10-20 Thread Sameer Verma
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote: Some folks from RIT have already Sugarized something (not that I've ever tried it) I also have no idea whether it would work on an

Re: opportunistic suspend article on LWN

2011-10-20 Thread Paul Fox
peter wrote: I know we do this (or similar) on the XOs, it seems there's a discussion on it upstream. Not sure if its worth reviewing to ensure our requirements are met as part of that. I know it won't affect us now but we know its something that will likely come and bite us later, might

Re: Potential volunteer offering technical writing

2011-10-20 Thread Tabitha Roder
On 20 October 2011 11:21, Christoph Derndorfer christoph.derndor...@gmail.com wrote: not sure what the exact time difference is between San Francisco and NZ but maybe we could set up a Skype call between Rachel, you, and us in SF to coordinate our documentation efforts? Cheers, Christoph

Re: opportunistic suspend article on LWN

2011-10-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: i'm not too worried that we can't do better with what's coming along. Is it worth making noise about olpc-powerd, lessons learned, desirable features? We are ahead of the curve in using mostly-vanilla Linux with aggressive suspend

Re: opportunistic suspend article on LWN

2011-10-20 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: i'm not too worried that we can't do better with what's coming along. Is it worth making noise about olpc-powerd, lessons learned, desirable features? We are ahead of the curve in using mostly-vanilla