[ale] OLPC in the ATL

[Ned Williams]

Out of curiosity is anyone following the XS development (the OLPC School
Server)? I have been watching the mailing lists for a while now and they are
what you might call..slow.

Ned


On Dec 25, 2007 7:39 PM, William Bagwell <rb211 at tds.net> wrote:

> On Saturday 22 December 2007, Grady Harris wrote:
> >snips
> > Does it load & display PDF quickly
> > enough not to be distracting?
>
> Just got around to testing this. 179 KB (56 page) PDF grabbed at random
> and
> transferred to the XO via a USB key. Opened in just a few seconds (after
> finding it...) and scrolls plenty fast. This guy has tested the XO with an
> ebook (on an 16 Gig SD card) so you should be happy.
>
> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/community-support/2007-December/000463.html
>
> No joy with the wireless card in my computer. Went back to plan A, a USB
> to
> ethernet adapter. No fun driving driving to Marietta on Christmas
> eve, but what passes for a computer store in Canton was sold out. Works
> great
> and the XO connects to the net just fine.
>
> Anyone tried out a live CD of Sugar yet? The official project was
> abandoned
> back in April. Two others are available and a third planed. This one works
> but is a bit glitchy. http://startx.ro/sugar/  Missing some of the sound
> related 'Activities' and has a few others to replacing them that are not
> pre-installed on the real XO. Despite the glitches it is much easier for
> me to use with a full sized keyboard and mouse.
>
> Unable to get this one to finish downloading, so I have not tested it.
> ftp://rohrmoser-engineering.de/pub/XO-LiveCD/
> http://skolelinux.de/XO-LiveCD/
> Both were hanging at 89% Did manage to get the ftp one to resume once and
> got
> up to 92% before it hung yet again. Neither link is working for me at the
> moment. I probably got IP banned for trying too many times:)
> --
> William
>
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