<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 June 2016 at 21:57, Dave Crossland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" target="_blank">dave@lab6.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Should we support the XO-1?</div><div><br></div><div>No:</div><div><br></div><div>The Browse activity is fundementally broken: We can't use old browsers (webkit v1) on modern websites, and that hardware isn't powerful enough for new browsers and modern websites either; the latest v8 JavaScript JIT compiler doesn't work well with the exotic x86 chip on the XO-1. </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I actually think this is not that big a deal; there's a lot of good stuff on the web (obvious example, wikipedia) which is still fine.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>All the XOs require specially crafted Linux kernels, and OLPC doesn't have up to date versions so OLPC OS is stuck with Fedora 18. New versions of GTK are blocked on the kernel - it seems - and this turns away developers. Its not fine! ;)</div></blockquote></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> </blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>As Fedora gets newer, it will work less well on the XO-1, assuming more resources than the XO-1 has, even if the kernel is updated. Would Puppy work better than Fedora going forwards, as it is something intended for ultra low power computers?</div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div>It seems Jerry Vonau worked on a Fedora 22 version in January - <a href="https://github.com/jvonau/olpc-os-builder-1/commits/F22-host">https://github.com/jvonau/olpc-os-builder-1/commits/F22-host</a> - and I just spoke to him offline and he said he thinks Fedora 24 could be made to work with a Fedora 18 kernel.<br></div><div><br></div></div>However, <a href="http://www.one-education.org">http://www.one-education.org</a> has just announced their new unit, which is US$260 including tax (but plus shipping from Australia)<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Perhaps that should be the reference unit?</div></div>