Indeed it was. Read more in the link.
(via zdnet)
Tag Archives: XO
The iPodTouch Is What The OLPC XO Should Have Been
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
The iPodTouch is a mass-marketed device, so its cost has been driven down. An 8Gb device costs only $230.
Its development environment nearly demands performance. Its development language is Objective-C or C and only one app can be run at a time. Contrast that with Sugar on X11 on Python on C and an environment [...]
XO Keyboard Field Repairs
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Here is a funny yet practical post on XO keyboard field repairs.
Laptops make a good school better, but they don’t make a bad school good
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Laptops make a good school better, but they don’t make a bad school good.
There is an entire book about it here.
(via OLPC News)
A Revised XO Setup
Sunday, May 3, 2009
OLPC XO Sugar release 8.2.0 (r767) left me with a useless machine so I decided to go back to a more reliable operating system version and capture the full setup here for record.
A Generation 1.5 XO is in the works
Saturday, April 18, 2009
This post explains that a Generation 1.5 XO is in the works. The primary changes are beefier hardware: 1GHz CPU, 1GB ram, 4GB storage, and HD Video and Audio.
(via engadget)
The future of OLPC
Saturday, January 31, 2009
The OLPC project is redefining its workforce and goals.
Maybe this is not surprising. It will be interesting to see what impact the project will have made in the long run.
Sugar went on a diet
Thursday, January 8, 2009
In one of the recent builds of Sugar for the OLPC XO, I found that “out of the box” the machine barely has enough memory to run programs. Tonight I installed the most recent operating system version, 8.2.0, and found the amount of free memory to be drastically increased:
Total MB
Used MB
Free MB
Sugar 8.2.0
230
162
67
Sugar Previous
232
220
12
With 55MB [...]
Sugar – Release 8.2.0
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Sugar is the UI portion of the Linux build that runs on the OLPC XO.
It is a radical departure from what we would call “typical” user interfaces in 2008; and it really took some “getting used to it”. With the release of 8.20, it looks like they have made some “user friendly” Sugar and a [...]
Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) for XO
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Here is a link that explains how to set up Ubuntu on the XO.
(via OLPC News)
Addendum: 18/2/9
I installed it and it worked flawlessly. Here are my notes on the installation:
000. Remove the SD card and start the XO.
001. Start Terminal in Sugar.
002. Connect the USB drive
003. Run mount | grep /dev/sd , repeat until it [...]