On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 07:45:58AM -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote:
For this reason, Sugar needs a wider basis, to run on more Linux
platforms and to run under
Windows. We have been engaged in discussions with Microsoft for
several months, to explore a
dual boot version of the XO. Some of you
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 02:21:22PM +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote:
But it doesn't really matter much as Charles Kane makes it clear in
todays interview [1]
It was last week, actually.
... that OLPC is now actually selling XOs with Windows on them:
After the success and the impact we have had
My understanding is that although Windows is available, there have
been no sales; deployments have preferred Sugar.
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Sascha
Silbesascha-ml-ui-sugar-olpc-de...@silbe.org wrote:
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 07:45:58AM -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote:
For this reason,
On Jul 27 2009, at 12:17, Mitch Bradley was caught saying:
/ - 2 GB - ext4
Contains system files
How about having 2x1GiB system partitions so that instead of doing
the symlink stuff we do right now, we can just mount the appropriate
system parition as the root partition? Metadata for
On Jul 27 2009, at 13:27, Mitch Bradley was caught saying:
The filesystem is no longer internally compressed. The current size for
the XO-1.5 system is 1.1 GB. 2 GB gives some headroom for growth and
for temporary overages during updates.
Chris,
Are we stuck with 1.1GiB or do we think we
Hi,
How about having 2x1GiB system partitions so that instead of
doing the symlink stuff we do right now, we can just mount the
appropriate system parition as the root partition? Metadata for
which partition contains the most recent OS image could be stored
in /boot.
Well,
Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
currently disabled because it exposed a bug in OFWs ext2 code.
That bug is fixed in q3a06, which I released yesterday.
I thought q3 OFW was meant only for XO-1.5 (and would brick XO-1).
Correct. The XO-1.5 firmware (q3xxx) won't pass the checksum test on an
XO-1 and
Hi, [adding fedora-olpc-list to CC]
Are we stuck with 1.1GiB or do we think we can reduce that further?
Well, there are a few things going on here. We have activities and
content (and will probably add more activities and content) that's
currently part of the 1.1GiB, but is actually in
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Chris Ball wrote:
Hi, [adding fedora-olpc-list to CC]
Are we stuck with 1.1GiB or do we think we can reduce that further?
Well, there are a few things going on here. We have activities and
content (and will probably add more activities and content) that's
currently
Another important advantage to partitions is that the existence of a
boot partition isolates the firmware from changes in the filesystem used
for the root.
Advantage #2 that you cite below is also quite valuable - it makes it
easy to preserve user data while replacing/recovering/updating the
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Mitch Bradley wrote:
Another important advantage to partitions is that the existence of a boot
partition isolates the firmware from changes in the filesystem used for the
root.
can you explain this a bit more?
Advantage #2 that you cite below is also quite valuable -
da...@lang.hm wrote:
disadvantages to using partitions
primarily boils down to one
you have to decide ahead of time how big to make the partitions, and
changing this later is non-trivial. if you guess wrong you can end up
running out of space in one place while you have extra
Hi,
Another important advantage to partitions is that the existence
of a boot partition isolates the firmware from changes in the
filesystem used for the root.
can you explain this a bit more?
Concrete example: if you want to use btrfs on your root filesystem,
you must have
da...@lang.hm wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Mitch Bradley wrote:
Another important advantage to partitions is that the existence of a
boot partition isolates the firmware from changes in the filesystem
used for the root.
can you explain this a bit more?
A conventional BIOS boots by
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Paul Fox wrote:
da...@lang.hm wrote:
disadvantages to using partitions
primarily boils down to one
you have to decide ahead of time how big to make the partitions, and
changing this later is non-trivial. if you guess wrong you can end up
running out of space in
sascha wrote:
good stuff about LVM
thank you. i was aware of LVM, but didn't realize it would accomplish
quite what i was proposing.
paul
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On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Mitch Bradley wrote:
da...@lang.hm wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Mitch Bradley wrote:
Another important advantage to partitions is that the existence of a boot
partition isolates the firmware from changes in the filesystem used for
the root.
can you explain this a
lilo is nearly worst of breed in terms of putting magic stuff in the
Master Boot Record.
da...@lang.hm wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Mitch Bradley wrote:
da...@lang.hm wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Mitch Bradley wrote:
Another important advantage to partitions is that the existence of
a boot
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Mitch Bradley wrote:
lilo is nearly worst of breed in terms of putting magic stuff in the Master
Boot Record.
every boot loader puts stuff in the master boot record (it's own code if
nothing else)
lilo puts everything there needed to find the disk blocks it needs.
Any thoughts on moving from jffs to ubifs ?
Seems like ubifs has really improved in stability recently.
I have been playing with some ARM based devices, using a recent
kernel, and went from jffs to ubifs and the file access and boot
performance improved enormously.
Should hopefully see the
2009/7/29 rihowa...@gmail.com rihowa...@gmail.com:
Any thoughts on moving from jffs to ubifs ?
Seems like ubifs has really improved in stability recently.
I think we are ready to do this without too much hassle - but first
let's wait until someone has actually made and published a build and
Daniel that is interesting.
My arm devices are booting directly on ubifs. One is running ubuntu
( SheevaPlug ) and the other Fed 8 ( OpenRD Client). I am going to
build Fed 11 this weekend for the OpenRD Client and then try and get
the XS bits ported to it (but that is for a separate thread
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:13:34PM -0700, rihowa...@gmail.com wrote:
Wish I knew how to create drivers for OFW so it could boot from UBIFS.
Why bother? Do what debxo does and leave OFW a boot partition to deal
with, that way you wouldn't need to have UBIFS in OFW.
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James Cameron
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 03:25:35PM +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Joshua N Pritikinjpriti...@pobox.com wrote:
Can I create regular logins just to get started on exploring moodle?
- If you want to get 'admin' on the patched Moodle on XS, see
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