<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 6:55 AM, Samuel Greenfeld <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:samuel@greenfeld.org" target="_blank">samuel@greenfeld.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><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 dir="ltr"><div><div>I have updated the XO-1/1.5/1.75/4 images I previously made.<br><br></div><div>The updated images can be found at <a href="http://www.greenfeld.org/xo/community/builds/14.1.0/build_2/" target="_blank">http://www.greenfeld.org/xo/community/builds/14.1.0/build_2/</a> <br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Profound Thanks Sam, and the Many Others behind this work. Nobody wants to believe it outside of Silicon
Valley's plastic bubble, but I continue to be SHOCKED by the number of XO-1 and
XO-1.5s in very active use. I too (thought) they'd be put out to pasture long ago, per the 5-year design life of these machines, arising from a
very different decade.<br><br>But that's just not the case, three years after $49.99 Android tablets appeared.<br><br>Instead, we're now closer the next decade (2020 vision ;) and confoundingly I'm getting as many thoughtful support requests as ever 8 years later. Incredibly legit community/education vectors included...So Refreshingly! Certainly generations beyond our MIT founder's penchant for ID-as-Industrial Design. Rather than ID-as-International Development.<br><br>I did not think this possible in 2011-2013, when all too much was winding down. But wouldn't it be truly LOVELY if our community could consolidate OS support across most of these 4 machines for starters, into a (XO-1, XO-1.5, XO-1.75, XO-4)
2020 Vision --- despite very obvious imperfections/compromises that will certainly need to be made
along the way.<br><br></div><div>Fascinating how everybody loves to mock France. And yet France is the *only* country worldwide with a backbone to actually Stand Up to so many sick business models of planned obsolescence, right now endangering our planet:<br><br> End Of The Line For Stuff That's Built To Die? A new French law demands that manufacturers display how long their appliances will last.<br> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2015/mar/03/has-planned-obsolesence-had-its-day-design" target="_blank">http://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2015/mar/03/has-planned-obsolesence-had-its-day-design</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Yes or no, do we want to live in a Black-Box Society where education is reduced to Facebook or its advertisers having the power (legally, for now) to swing elections at the touch of a button, and NSA can lie with impunity before Congress? Yes or no, do we want to buy yet more disposable software, on toxic glimmering junk, to pile upon our grandchildren's planet whatever's left of it? If our post-Negroponte movement's going to steal 1 good idea from Steve
Jobs' original age-old pre-cloudy business model, how about it: a few more tools that last, a few more tools
that we can trust, a few more tools that Respect Kids...<br><br>Tough post-Negroponte community leadership compromises will need to be made. But who would have thought that the French, even Monsieur McDonalds this week not just Piketty, are leading us back to sanity -- genuinely informed market choices about what we're buying and what it's doing to every generation? Who would have thought in 2007 that that RACHEL-based microservers ("Remote Area Community Hotspot for Education") would essentially take over @ Southern Calif Linux Expo as they did 2 weeks ago? <i>En Avant!!</i><br></div><div><br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div></div>Again, these images are not supported by OLPC.<br><br></div>It would be useful to know who actually might actually deploy these images, as there has not been much of a response so far. There are relatively few people working on XO software at the moment, and we need more help in order to create a polished release.<br><br><div><div><div>Bug reports about these images can be filed in <a href="http://dev.laptop.org" target="_blank">dev.laptop.org</a> with the "commbuild"
keyword.<br><br></div><div>Changes from the last build:<br><ul><li>Sugar 0.104 is now included.<br></li><li>The language control panel problem appears to just be a first-boot issue. If broken, rebooting should allow the language control panel to work.</li><li>On XO-1, the Linux kernel has been downgraded to a Fedora 18/Linux 3.8 OLPC/XO kernel to solve the excess CPU usage. But mesh networking is not coming online, and collaboration on XO-1 may be more generally broken.</li></ul><p>Known major issues still outstanding:</p><ul><li>The XO-1.5 camera (OLPC #12858) and suspend (OLPC #12859) problems still exist.</li><li>On XO-4, programs may randomly crash (OLPC #12837).</li><li>On XO-4, the on-screen keyboard does not appear in ebook mode, and cannot be used (OLPC #12865).</li></ul><p><br></p></div></div></div></div>
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