<div class="gmail_quote">On 4 June 2010 09:07, Chris Ball <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cjb@laptop.org">cjb@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi Tim,<br> <div class="im"><br> > As soon as I heard that OLPC was moving to ARM, I winced<br> > slightly. This is going to make life much more difficult, because<br> > of our longstanding Linux, Python and recent GNOME heritage. What<br> > is Sugar Labs' role with the XO-3+?<br> <br> </div>I don't understand -- the XO-3 (and XO-1.5) will run Linux, Python and<br> Sugar, as described in Ed's e-mail at the start of this thread. What<br> has become much more difficult?<br><br></blockquote><div><br>Opps. I was fairly certain that it was a real pain to have an ARM computer run Linux[1]. I guess life is slightly different when you can talk to a manufacturer and avoid Windows CE altogether.<br> <br>Also, given that Android doesn't use many GNU libraries in userland, e.g. gcc, I didn't really consider it to be Linux. Therefore, as far as the Sugar stack went, I didn't realise that Android's API would be as flexible to support GTK+ libraries.<br> <br>Thanks for the corrections!<br><br>Tim.<br><br>[1] <a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/05/21/2335257/Installing-Linux-On-ARM-Based-Netbooks">http://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/05/21/2335257/Installing-Linux-On-ARM-Based-Netbooks</a><br> </div></div>