OLPC runs Windows XP.[1], but even before that, Sugar was a hibotchory of
poor design.

XBMC is depreciated (and cant run content over 480i) and Boxee is the best
branched codebase.

Tell Flint hes 6-9 months behind the curve, but I still want to use his
soldering iron.

Cheers,
Stan

1: http://gizmodo.com/391054/windows-xp-on-olpc-xo-laptop-now-official

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:01 PM, chris yarger <[email protected]> wrote:

> during todays adult swim meeting in barre paul brought up the one laptop
> per child sugarlabs python based 'sugar' OS
> maybe something along the lines of this, or other non desktop based
> interfaces for the x display system  such as the XBMC (Xbox Media Center)
> program interface
>
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> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Josh Sled <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Kevin Thorley <[email protected]> writes:
>> > Several of the things that were discussed at the hackerspace council
>> > on Tuesday are quite applicable to future VAGUE meetings, so I thought
>> > in the middle of all this great hackerspace talk, maybe we could come
>> > up with some ideas for VAGUE's summer meetings.
>>
>> I think – especially after Kurth's recent email – these are all great
>> ideas.  Some of them are along similar lines to the presentations that
>> VAGUE has been trying to do, some are a little more interactive versions
>> of a traditional presentation, and some are not at all presentations,
>> but purely interactive sessions.
>>
>> Regardless, it seems like there's consensus that "business as usual"
>> with VAGUE meetings isn't meeting people's needs.  Maybe a non-VAGUE
>> venue will, but in the mean time – and since converstation started here
>> – I don't see why VAGUE can't try to be closer to what people want.
>>
>>
>> > - Open source bug fixing party: I forget who brought this up (Josh,
>>
>> I've been trying to get more involved with Gentoo testing and
>> bug-fixing, and that sort of things might lend itself well to such an
>> environment, especially since it seems like a large part of distribution
>> work is looking at what/how *other* distributions work, and either doing
>> the idiomatic thing in your distro, or promoting their solution.  Heck,
>> just having a "figure out how to fix your most annoying desktop issue"
>> would be a good topic that everyone could probably contribute to.
>>
>> > - Arduino presentation.  Arduino may not be UNIX, but it is open
>>
>> As I mentioned, I have a Diecimila and some basic spare parts I could
>> bring to a similar event, so I'm totally down with this.  But we should
>> have a micro-presentation, I think, with most of the time being
>> hands-on, instead.  The Mac Lab at UVM might be kinda perfect for this,
>> if available, since it's already a lab (no food, clean surfaces, power,
>> &c.)  environment.
>>
>> > - Ruby/Ruby on Rails: Has this topic been covered before?  If not it
>>
>> I don't think Ruby/ROR has been covered, no.
>>
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