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

[Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero]

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Nice, would be nice to see this work in action.

>> Tomeu
>>
>>> -walter
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