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 > > > warmest regards, > > Chris Yarger > > > > Founder > Yarger Designs > > web: http://YargerDesigns.org > skype: cpyarger > msn: [email protected] > aim: patyarg > yahoo: christoyarg > ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) > against HTML e-mail X > / \ > Henny > Youngman<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/henny_youngman.html> - > "I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going > to those places." > > 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. >> >> -- >> ...jsled >> http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b} >> > >
