SanDisk Extreme III Test Cards
by Karlie Robinson
Good morning everyone.
I have been working with SanDisk and Arrow Electronics to source the SD
Cards you've spec'd for the Fedora on OLPC project.
If anyone would like to test on the OEM version[1] of the cards, I can
mail them to you at cost. So $30US. I'll pay the postage.
~Karlie
[1] - Why is OEM important? When any sort of flash memory is produced
there are minute differences with the internal structure. For this
project we'll need to use an OEM part which ensures that we have the
same card structure with every SD we send through the duplicator.
Retail packaged cards do not have a consistent internal structure which
can cause quality issues with a duplication run.
It's not that retail is inferior quality, but for day to day use (in a
camera, phone or other application) write tolerances don't need to be as
precise.
15 years, 5 months
Fedora XO Network Test - meeting recap
by James Laska
Fedora XO Network Test Meeting
Date: 2008-10-24
Time: 9AM EDT (13:00 UTC)
== Attendees ==
* jlaska
* _drj2_
* atodorov
* rvokal
* qark
* chao5
* xyziemba
* thatneat
== General Status ==
* All XO's have arrive
> atodorov expecting delivery on Mon/Tue next week
* chao5 having difficulty booting snap#2. Possibly due to using
different SD media? Will confirm with qark and rvokal who have the same
media
== Team Links ==
* Team Roster -
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/XO_Test_Roll_Call#Networking:_Two_Cups_and...
* Test Plan - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/TestPlans/Networking
== Test Plan Discussion ==
* The discussion of what applications to test wrt to networking came up
> command-line tools (iwconfig iwlist, etc...)
> NetworkManager
> system-config-network ?
* chao5 recommended focusing on the software integration with the
hardware, and less on testing the hardware or software directly
* atodorov suggested tracking+testing USB wire{d,less} devices
== IRC Transcript ==
* See attached
== Action Items ==
* chao5 - flesh outline of proposed tactics to wiki
* atodorov/rvokal - post their USB wire{d,less} devices to the test plan
* jlaska - follow-up with status of mesh networking in fedora10
15 years, 5 months
Announcing Fedora Sugar Spin!
by Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody,
I'm proud to be announce the availability of our Fedora Sugar Spin,
which incorporates the Sugar Desktop Environment on a Fedora Live CD.
So, what is this in specific? With this spin, you'll be able to run
Sugar, which is developed by Sugarlabs and the desktop environment used
on the OLPC, directly from a Live CD! You'll find several activities on
the image including most notably...
* sugar-browse - a web browsing activity based on xulrunner
* sugar-write - a word processor based on abiword
...among with several other applications introducing e.g. chat support.
We, the OLPC SIG, will be importing further activities into Fedora,
which might be installed using 'yum install sugar-*' at a later time.
Where can you get it? Easily, here:
http://sdz.fedorapeople.org/olpc/sugar-spin.iso
Here's the SHA1 checksum, just if you're interested:
f032ab45aa116c2728dcd2d676e29a5ee114fd1d sugar-spin.iso
And what if you wanted to put it quickly onto your USB Key? Even easier!
You'll just need to grab Luke Macken's liveusb-creator, which already
includes support for the Sugar Spin. Here's the link:
https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/liveusb-creator/liveusb-creator-3.0...
Thank you everybody, who made this possible!
--Sebastian
15 years, 5 months
Activities packaging
by Marco Pesenti Gritti
A general note about activities packaging... It seem like some of the
packages submitted for review uses git snapshots. I would prefer to
get releases from upstream for various reasons. I wrote a script to
make it trivial to make a source release and I'm figuring out the best
way to solicit activity authors to get in the habit.
Marco
15 years, 5 months
Reminder: meeting 1pm today Eastern US time
by Greg DeKoenigsberg
#fedora-olpc on freenode.
I know that for this week in particular, there's a change in the TZ
difference between the US and Europe, since we are still on daylight
savings time and Europe is not. So I leave it to you guys to figure out
when to be there. :)
See you soon.
--g
15 years, 6 months
Status of Joyride
by Chris Ball
Hi,
> is there a plan to start up joyride again so we can (somewhat more
> easily) test this stuff out? Or is that waiting till after
> XOcamp2? Did I maybe miss the email thread about this?
I looked at this today. Builds are failing because numpy grew a
dependency on python-nose; we could pin numpy back to the old version,
accept the new dependency on python-nose (200KB compressed), or fork
the package. I commented on a bug asking if there's a way to lose the
dependency in the main numpy package:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465999
- Chris.
--
Chris Ball <cjb(a)laptop.org>
15 years, 6 months
Fedora XO Camera Test - meeting recap
by Brian Pepple
Fedora XO Camera Test Meeting
Date: 2008-10-24
Time: 1pM EDT (17:00 UTC)
== Attendees ==
* bpepple
* bryan_kearney
* tyf1
== Team Name ==
* Decided to use 'Paparazzi!' for the team name.
== Test Plan Discussion ==
* Discussed what applications to use for testing of the camera
functionality. Some possibilities were:
1. Cheese
2. Facebook (use Adobe Flash)
3. Ekiga
4. Skype
5. Tokbox
* bpepple will check with the sound team to see if they are
testing the built-in mic in their test plans.
== Future Meetings ==
* Will plan on meeting at the same day & time for future meetings.
Later,
/B
--
Brian Pepple <bpepple(a)fedoraproject.org>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Bpepple
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15 years, 6 months
[Fwd: Fedora 10 Snapshot 3]
by James Laska
FYI XO Testers,
Snap#3 is out. I've managed to write and boot this on my XO with no
major test blockers as of yet.
Thanks,
James
-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com>
> Reply-to: fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com
> To: fedora-announce-list(a)redhat.com, fedora-devel-announce(a)redhat.com
> Subject: Fedora 10 Snapshot 3
> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:23:41 -0700
>
> This is the final snapshot before our final devel freeze and subsequent
> preview release. On the torrent site you'll find install images and
> live images for testing. http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
>
> The i686 Live is just over 700M in size, so you /may/ have trouble
> burning it if your media is very strict about it's size.
>
> Of important note, these images do have a bug in them,
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468360 where some realtek
> network cards will not initialize properly. This bug has been fixed in
> today's rawhide, which was too late for the snapshot. If you use the
> snapshot and fail to have networking, you'll need to update the kernel.
>
> Thanks for the testing!
>
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--
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James Laska -- jlaska(a)redhat.com
Quality Engineering -- Red Hat, Inc.
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15 years, 6 months
Fedora 10 on SD Card for the XO
by Karlie Robinson
Here's the URL for the pre-order SD cards for the XO.
http://on-disk.com/product_info.php/products_id/595
This comes about 3 weeks before the One Laptop Per Child Give One Get
One promotion starts and exactly 4 weeks until the release of F10.
Use this time to encourage people to visit http://laptop.org and talk up
just how spectacular the XO is.
Remember, there are lots of people out there who will stand in line for
days waiting to buy electronics and this is their chance to have
something 'exclusive' since the XO isn't something you can buy at your
local electronics store.
With the F10 option for the XO, adults who may not find the child
focused graphical interface called Sugar practical for daily use, Fedora
allows the XO to behave in a more familiar way.
In this sense, the XO is on-par with any small form factor laptop except
your purchase of an XO during the Give One Get One promotion directly
effects the lives of children.
Again, thinking about all those people who don't think twice about
buying smart phones, game systems, and the like - there's no corporate
profit with the XO, just a chance to better the lives of children all
over the world.
~Karlie Robinson
15 years, 6 months
