...number to you in what spare moments I have. As a side note: I am now painfully aware of the logistic hurdles around the XO shipment process, and hope to work more directly with the folks at OLPC to work through them. I'm profoundly sorry that you, patient volunteers, had to suffer through my learning curve in this regard. 2. Here in the lounge at the Free Software and Open Source Symposium...
As an update to my post last week, Snapshot 2 of Fedora 10 should be available via bittorrent now. (I had intended to post this update on Friday, but then my main laptop decided to start randomly and...to crash.
On the other hand, from my quick reading of mailing lists so far, there may also be some other performance regressions vs Snap1. Testing and details from people appreciated as always
Originally, we asked testers to sign up on a calendar page to claim time slots for testing. For various logistical reasons, this hasn't worked out well enough to be sustainable. Instead, please make sure...if you have any questions, drop me a line and ask. gdk at the hat of red dot com. Note #2: if people don't volunteer for team leads, I will start drafting likely candidates. You know who you are. ;
1. SHIPPING. All shipping requests have been made, and all XOs should be on their way. For US residents, you should already have your XOs; if not, please contact me. For international folks, XOs have shipped...issues. Thanks to everyone who has helped us figure this out. Lots of feedback on performance issues here ; if you have anything to add, please do so. Let us all continue to rock so hard now
...for testing between the beta and the preview release.
On Friday, the first of these post-beta snapshots was released. This includes a set of live images which can run without modifications on the OLPC. This is nice as it will make me not have to do builds of images and host them on fedorapeople anymore :-)
With this image plus the updated livecd-iso-to-disk , the performance of the image on...
...me, hopefully I'll get to it tomorrow. Direct mail looks quiet, but I see there are some 800 messages on variousFedora related lists for me to get through... For those chomping at the bit about Fedora on OLPC, the new snapshot images that went up on Friday should work better on the XO and integrate everything that's needed without requiring a specialOLPC build. You'll also want the updated
So, you just got your XO to do some testing of Fedora on OLPC. You update the software that was on there, get a developer key, wait a day, and then get all ready to boot your Fedora image off of the SD card ....
And it boots. But it's slow. Very very slow. Some slowness is to be expected... this isn't a fast machine. But it should probably be a little bit speedier than it is. So want to try out...
EcoGeek - Flexible OLEDs
This new device is both transparent and flexible, while still producing a bright display that can be viewed at almost any angle. Its response time is up to ten times faster...manufacturers aren’t working with heavy metals like mercury, which go into many fluorescent lights.
This is what JulidD and I were talking about… a cheap rollup computer that uses almost no power.
I was able to process the first 50 requests to the US. They shipped on Saturday (I believe) and 50 of you will be receiving tracking numbers today. Subsequent US shipments and international shipments...that we'll push the testing times into early November. Apologies for this effort taking a little longer to shake out than I'd hoped, but we're getting there, and will hit our stride later this week
Made some more progress today with running Fedora on the XO. Until I manage to go and pick up the right SD card, I figured I'd give performance a little bit of a rest and so instead focused on seeing...available at all right now. I suspect some kernelbits that haven't been upstreamed need to be pulled out. Will probably look closer at this tomorrow
And now, I think it is time to go watch some tv
