Re: XO-1.75 - Flash, Java?
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Carlos Nazareno object...@gmail.com wrote: Will Flash Flash Player Java SE (not JavaME) run on the XO-1.75, it being non-x86? For Android, Flash Player requires an ARMv7 (Cortex) + to run. Flash Player 9 was running on the N900 which ran Maemo. Video calls streaming over internet is now one of the most important uses for developing countries and for children to talk to family members like parents who work overseas like here in the Philippines. Aside from Skype, Flash facilitates this for streaming. AFAIK Youtube will also be rolling out more livestreaming soon and will probably do full streaming for anyone a la Ustream in the future. Java should be OK. The version that Fedora ships is based on the open GPL version that is called IcedTea and is fully certified by the Java group. We'll know more in the next month or so. Flash might be a little more difficult as the version on the n900 wasn't generally downloadable. gnash and/or lightspark should work though. Peter ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: XO-1.75 - Flash, Java?
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: Java should be OK. The version that Fedora ships is based on the open GPL version that is called IcedTea and is fully certified by the Java group. We'll know more in the next month or so. Yep. Also to note that it is missing in the F13 ARM build so it may be held up with some problem. Flash might be a little more difficult as the version on the n900 OTOH, I have seen Flash running on Ubuntu on ARM (on the Freescale Cortex SOC), so it is possibly within reach... of Adobe. Nothing we can do on that front. Carlos -- please make sure you chase Adobe on this topic. And Skype. m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: XO-1.75 - Flash, Java?
Carlos -- please make sure you chase Adobe on this topic. And Skype. m Will re-initiate talks w/ Adobe folks. Btw, congrats on the recent developments in South America guys! Really cool stuff! :) -Naz -- carlos nazareno http://twitter.com/object404 http://www.object404.com -- core team member phlashers: philippine flash actionscripters http://www.phlashers.com -- poverty is violence ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: XO-1.75 - Flash, Java?
On 04/13/2011 05:47 PM, Carlos Nazareno wrote: Will Flash Flash Player Java SE (not JavaME) run on the XO-1.75, it being non-x86? You may look into trying to get Java SE For Embedded working. It supposedly supports ARM architectures, but that's all I know about it. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/embedded/overview/index.html#FAQ I did some work on getting Java to work correctly on my XO-1.0 and added the information that I discovered to the Wiki: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Java The biggest problems were that the Java distribution available from Yum didn't pull in the fonts that its font configuration file actually used (making everything show up in an odd italic font,) and some problems with the display not being repainted properly on rotate. I considered it also a serious problem that the then-shipping configurations of the OLPC completely lacked fonts with glyphs for many languages (e.g. there were no fonts with Chinese or Japanese characters) so these languages could not be rendered in any application on the OLPC, including in the browser. This should probably be considered to be a bug in a supposedly-internationalized platform, and affects language learning, or even seeing what another language looks like. -- Alan Eliasen elia...@mindspring.com http://futureboy.us/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: XO-1.75 - Flash, Java?
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Alan Eliasen elia...@mindspring.com wrote: I considered it also a serious problem that the then-shipping configurations of the OLPC completely lacked fonts with glyphs for many languages (e.g. there were no fonts with Chinese or Japanese characters) so these languages could not be rendered in any application on the OLPC, including in the browser. This should probably be considered to be a bug in a supposedly-internationalized platform, and affects language learning, or even seeing what another language looks like. The Chinese and Japanese fonts are *very* large. I believe OLPC only ships them to countries which need them, in order to make more space for kids' stuff. --scott ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
