[IAEP] [Marketing] OLPC rules out Windows for XO-3

[Walter Bender]

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 18:38, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 15:16, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 17:52, John Tierney <jtis4stx at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Thought this article would be of interest to the community.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> OLPC Rules out Windows for XO-3
>>>>>> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/052710-olpc-rules-out-windows-for.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Ed's mentions of Sugar, Sugar Labs and the Sugar community are very
>>>>> nice. And he's right about the importance of Sugar growing support for
>>>>> touch-based interfaces. Anybody has thought about it?
>>>>
>>>> How much support for it do we get by default though gtk/pygtk/xorg
>>>> support from upstream? I presume we might have to do some changes to
>>>> make advanced use of it in sugar core, and possibly but surely we get
>>>> quite a reasonable amount by virtue of support in upstream.
>>>
>>> From http://live.gnome.org/GTK%2B/MPX seems like most of Sugar should
>>> keep working, but there will be the need to implement some gestures to
>>> keep usability in some areas and to better take advantage of the
>>> hardware.
>>>
>>> Would be nice to install F14/Rawhide on a device with multitouch and
>>> try it out with latest unstable gtk+, which contains the xi2 work:
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=596725
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Tomeu
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>>
>> CJB mentioned he already has Fedora running!! Gary has been doing some
>> good thinking about extensions for touch.
>
> Running on what? ;)

A proto tablet from Marvell, me thinks.

> Tomeu
>
>> -walter
>>
>> --
>> Walter Bender
>> Sugar Labs
>> http://www.sugarlabs.org
>>
>



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