[Sugar-devel] Does Sugar on XO-1 support Python 3?

[James Cameron]

Um, I disagree.  The XO-1 distribution of OLPC OS is not based on
Fedora 18 because of the large number of activities only available for
Python 2.

It is based on Fedora 18 because we couldn't get Fedora 20 to work
reliably in time for production of XO-1.75 and XO-4, in turn because
we didn't have enough engineering resources applied to the problem.
We turned instead to further stabilising the software at the Fedora 18
release point, and that was our strategy until the NL3 and ED2 models,
which used stable Ubuntu releases.

The number of still working OLPC XO-1 laptops is too tiny now to
consider it other than a hobby or enthusiast persuit.  It is great
that you found one working, but that is becoming rare.

If you want to counter the software age-related problems, one of the
cute methods is to add a piggy-back Raspberry Pi Zero {,2} configured
as a USB network interface.  Applications such as Firefox or Chrome
can be launched from the Pi onto the X display of the XO-1.

On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 03:12:43PM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
> Ibiam,
> 
> I just noticed that SoaS is based on Fedora 34 and the XO-1 distribution is
> based on Fedora 18. My guess is that this is because of the large number of
> Activities only available for Python 2.
> 
> James Simmons
> 
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 10:09 AM Chihurumnaya Ibiam <[1]ibiam at sugarlabs.org>
> wrote:
> 
>     Is Python3 installed and working as expected for the XO1?
> 
>     --
>     
>     Ibiam Chihurumnaya
>     [2]ibiam at sugarlabs.org
>    
> 
>     On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 3:59 PM James Simmons <[3]nicestep at gmail.com>
>     wrote:
> 
>         One of the tasks in the deployment checklist is to use Browse to
>         install the updated Activity and see if it works. I decided to dig out
>         my XO-1 and update it to the latest version of Sugar and use Gmail to
>         send my .xo files to the laptop for installation. I discovered two
>         things:
> 
>         1. The Browse Activity cannot log into Gmail because it disables
>         cookies. The version of Browse I can run on Fedora does not have this
>         problem.
> 
>         2. When I copy the .xo files from a USB drive to the Journal they
>         install OK but don't start. No messages whatsoever in the Log Activity,
>         but empty files are created for messages.
> 
>         It looks like you cannot get a version of Sugar using Python 3 for an
>         XO-1 laptop.
> 
>         Thanks,
> 
>         James Simmons
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> References:
> 
> [1] mailto:ibiam at sugarlabs.org
> [2] mailto:ibiam at sugarlabs.org
> [3] mailto:nicestep at gmail.com
> [4] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
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