Re: All these XO threads
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 12:40:52PM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 16:02 +0200, Dominik 'Rathann'
Mierzejewski wrote:
> Hi.
> I'm beginning to find all the recent XO-related threads a bit annoying.
> Could they be moved to fedora-olpc-list where they belong (and which
> is very low-traffic)?
bracin
+1
> If I'm the only one to find them annoying, feel free to ignore me.
Not so much annoying as frustremating, given that I have no prospect of
being able to get an XO where I am. I suspect the same is true of many
people on this list.
The key here is the XO folk are embracing fedora. i.e. they are getting on
this train not trying to drive things the other way arround.
The school server will be Fedora with some XO services, backups via rsync and
some class specific material and services like network gateway.
For those in the US the folk at OLPC will have another give-one:get-one program
this fall.. The XO is cute and yes nifty. A serious Linux USER will find it a bit light
on horsepower and memory but marvelous.
As far as a teaching tool goes the software and teaching concepts can
be applied to any laptop not just the XO. The hardware enables the
software as much or more than the other way around.
It has yum,
It has a window manager (matchbox)
It has a desktop (sugar)
It has bash
It has python
It has wireless networking
It has Ctl-Alt-F[123] alternate shell
It has an X server.
It has user accounts...
It has a web browser (firefox)
It has a Fedora kernel...
It has USB ports (three).
It has a mousepad
It has a keyboard....
It has a LCD display with an advantage.
Loading software is different... no DVD/CDROM.
When all is said and done it runs Fedora....
and this is a Fedora list.
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