Comments on: a taste of sugar

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 25 May 2006 17:06:17 +0000

I wonder if this could use the Maemo platform?

I know that maemo is going from a big PDA screen and taking pieces of Gnome and the Fedora OLPC project (Sugar) is going from Gnome to fit on a big PDA screen. I think you’all are going to meet in the middle.

The main platform for Maemo is the Nokia 770, with dual 200 Mhz ARM CPUs and 64 MB of ram. The platform for OLPC is a single 400 Mhz x86 CPU with 128 MB of ram. More people on the same desktop env. means more apps in more languages.

Why call ahead and make it a nice meeting?

By: Dude

Dude — Wed, 24 May 2006 23:56:00 +0000

I love the idea of one laptop per child, hope this come to my country soon.

By: Christopher Blizzard » Blog Archive » latest OLPC laptop prototype

Christopher Blizzard » Blog Archive » latest OLPC laptop prototype — Wed, 24 May 2006 02:44:33 +0000

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By: blizzard

blizzard — Mon, 22 May 2006 13:07:55 +0000

We haven’t optimized the boot yet so we’re not sure. Mounting a filesystem takes a few seconds, starting up some of the services takes a few seconds as does booting the kernel. But it’s less than your average desktop, that’s for sure.

By: Justin Mason

Justin Mason — Mon, 22 May 2006 12:07:31 +0000

wow, that brings me back! Don’t forget: don’t put the board on an anti-static bag, those things _do_ conduct electricity just fine ;)

By: Robert Accettura

Robert Accettura — Mon, 22 May 2006 02:56:44 +0000

Since it’s flash based… how long does it take to boot? I’d think it would be pretty quick.

By: blizzard

blizzard — Sun, 21 May 2006 05:37:24 +0000

There’s no reason why the software itself couldn’t run on other hardware. The problem with the software will be that it’s designed for the laptop’s display and the way that it will be deployed. That is, it makes certain assumptions about clusters of laptops and the way that the mesh networking works and that might not work in another metaphor. But it’s all free software, so there’s no reason why you might not be able to use it on other hardware.

The machine itself is a pretty simple x86 machine. 500mhz processor, 128 meg of ram and a half a gig of flash for storage. There’s a decent amount of technical information in the laptop.org wiki.

By: blizzard

blizzard — Sun, 21 May 2006 05:34:18 +0000

We’re actually building the user experience around the display’s size. That’s one of the reasons why we’re building our own small framework instead of using a standard panel/desktop setup.

By: Finalzone

Finalzone — Sat, 20 May 2006 23:26:57 +0000

What is the current specification of this board?

By: Peteris Krisjanis

Peteris Krisjanis — Sat, 20 May 2006 19:43:52 +0000

Man, this is really sweet to see something already moving forward! :) Keep us informed :)