FLOSS manual for XO

2011-05-18 Thread John Watlington
I have a FLOSS manuals question. We use a Users Manual (PDF version of the online one) for certification. In the case of the High School laptop (with a non-membrane keyboard), we need to alter the Users Manual to match the laptop's specs. As this modified manual would no longer be applicable

Prelink

2011-05-18 Thread Kevin Gordon
Folks: Might be over my head in the specific prelink OLPC talk here, but in my experience on the iSeries - anything that optimizes a software update process (which happens twice a year) at the expense of a program loads or the object instantiation process (which happen thousands of times an hour)

Re: Prelink

2011-05-18 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 07:45:49AM -0400, Kevin Gordon wrote: Might be over my head in the specific prelink OLPC talk here, but in my experience on the iSeries - anything that optimizes a software update process (which happens twice a year) at the expense of a program loads or the object

Re: Prelink

2011-05-18 Thread Paul Fox
james wrote: On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 07:45:49AM -0400, Kevin Gordon wrote: Might be over my head in the specific prelink OLPC talk here, but in my experience on the iSeries - anything that optimizes a software update process (which happens twice a year) at the expense of a program

Re: Prelink

2011-05-18 Thread Samuel Greenfeld
In general every major Fedora jump we do risks running out of space. In addition to upgrades, they also did a mass recompile for the upcoming F15 release. As long as we use a hardlink/multiple-root/rsync approach, I do not see an easy answer to this. What seems to be missing (in this

Looking for the Animation

2011-05-18 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi I am looking for the source of the great multiplication tables animated cartoon that someone used in their talk at eduJAM. Can anyone help me? This was the one where the students were reciting the tables that were written on the chalkboard then they were sitting in front of computer

Re: Prelink

2011-05-18 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 08:13:18AM -0400, Paul Fox wrote: but unless i misunderstood dsd, prelink is making our update process non-functional. I thought it only made the process slower than it should be, since moving from one build to another will cause, for each binary affected by prelink, a

Re: Prelink

2011-05-18 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 09:51:33AM -0400, Samuel Greenfeld wrote: What seems to be missing (in this discussion, and perhaps in the utility) is support in the OS builder to incrementally update based on a previous build. Yes, and I mentioned recently the idea of applying an incremental .zd

Re: Prelink

2011-05-18 Thread Paul Fox
james wrote: On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 08:13:18AM -0400, Paul Fox wrote: but unless i misunderstood dsd, prelink is making our update process non-functional. I thought it only made the process slower than it should be, since moving from one build to another will cause, for each binary

Re: [Server-devel] [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] copy files to/from server

2011-05-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Martin Abente martin.abente.lah...@gmail.com wrote: I still didn't make up my mind about which technical approach should I take in order to get this working, but I guess people already started sharing some ideas. And I would appreciate more ideas and discussion