interesting new battery technology

2015-04-08 Thread John Watlington
Aluminum and Graphite, in an aqueous solution. Can’t wait till it hits the market! http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32204707 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: XO-1 vs Sugar 0.104 performance, and swap to NAND Flash

2015-04-08 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 09:19:14PM -0400, Nathan C. Riddle wrote: > Can I rephrase the question: > Put /home and swap on SD. That might help, for particularly large activities. > I believe previous posts here have indicated that SD to RAM is not > the slowest step. This has always been a debate i

Re: XO-1 vs Sugar 0.104 performance, and swap to NAND Flash

2015-04-08 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 07:35:34PM -0400, Kevin Gordon Gmail wrote: > Perhaps silly Q... > > Any benefit just putting swap and static content on the SD? No question is silly. ;-) I'm guessing you are asking about performance, or response times. If so, the short answer is no. Details below. I

Re: XO-1 vs Sugar 0.104 performance, and swap to NAND Flash

2015-04-08 Thread Kevin Gordon Gmail
Perhaps silly Q... Any benefit just putting swap and static content on the SD? Kg Sent from my currently functioning gadget    Original Message   From: James Cameron Sent: Wednesday, April 8, 2015 19:31 To: devel@lists.laptop.org; sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org; support-g...@lists.laptop.org S

Re: XO-1 vs Sugar 0.104 performance, and swap to NAND Flash

2015-04-08 Thread James Cameron
What benefit is an SD card on an XO-1? My tests of about 400 starts show some benefit of using an SD card, on activity startup time. The benefits are: - boot time was decreased by several seconds; because of reduced demand for memory, - first activity start after boot was decreased by several

Ubuntu uxo

2015-04-08 Thread Jhon Diaz
How would I make a build for xo-1 using uxo tool from git Thanks ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] XO-1 vs Sugar 0.104 performance, and swap to NAND Flash

2015-04-08 Thread Peter Robinson
>> On 07/04/15 22:47, James Cameron wrote: >> > The testing scripts can be made available if anybody else would >> > like to replicate the results. >> >> I'd be curious to look at your scripts and try to replicate some >> results with our builds. > > git clone git://dev.laptop.org/users/quozl/test-