Re: Received your XO? Let us know!

[Scott S.]

Hello,

I have received my XO and it seems excellent. I just have it out of the 
box and will be trying to boot it soon. I work at my local ISP and we 
all love Fedora. We run mostly Fedora servers and a Fedora mirror. I 
have been looking forward to this project and am happy to be a part of 
it. I hope to contribute and give back to the Fedora project as much as 
I am able.

Thank You,

Scott S. (AKA Scooty)

Received your XO? Let us know!

[Joshua Daniel Franklin]

I got my XO.

I've been using Linux for about 10 years, and been a professional Linux
sysadmin for 6 years. I now work for a biomedical informatics group at UW
Seattle, and I support RHEL and formerly Debian. I use Fedora personally and
contributed to Cygwin back when I used Windows. I'm Fedora co-maintainer for
alpine, so I don't know why you'd want a GUI on your XO at all. :)

In addition to testing, I'd like to get some very straighforward
documentation together for current and future G1G1 participants to get
Fedora installed in a few simple steps. I love what are now called
'netbooks' (I have a Dell x200 and a Dell x300).

Received your XO? Let us know!

[Brian Witt]

I received my XO yesterday, but am having trouble getting it to boot.
When I turn it on, I see

The clock is not set properly
Invalid system date
Stopping

and then a sad face.  A few moments later it turns off.   I tried
flashing with the latest 767 build using the instructions at
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Clean-install_procedure but that didn't
change anything.

I see at

http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=91.0
and
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2d07

this is a firmware bug?  Can I upgrade the firmware myself?

I've been using Linux for about 10 years now, mostly in Red Hat Linux,
Fedora, CentOS, Debian, and Ubuntu flavors.  I'm running Fedora 9 at
home and work I support a bunch of Linux servers.  So I guess I'm
fairly Linux proficient :)

Brian