[Tfug] XO laptop and OLPC

[c1one]

I know this is a few days old but I just saw this message. I have an XO
& I'd be interested in meeting up. Haven't really been able to check out
the collaborative features of it yet....
.c


On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 14:34 -0700, Chris Hill wrote:
> Basgen, Brian wrote:
> >  I'm not aware of anyone working to incorporate the mesh into their
> > distro -- it would require a steep fundamental change in design; I would
> > guess kernel changes.
> >
> >  The XO is free and open source, and is built on a stripped down version
> > of fedora core. You can run the "Sugar" environment either virtually or
> > on distros like Ubuntu, Gentoo, etc. 
> >
> > 	http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Virtualized_Sugar
> > 	http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_on_Ubuntu_Linux
> > 	http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_on_Gentoo_Linux
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Brian Basgen
> > Information Security
> > Pima Community College
> >  
> >  
> I checked out of SVN sugar and ran it on Ubuntu and was severely 
> dissappointed with what I saw. This was before I had received my XO and 
> was very worried that it was going to be terrible. I was very happy when 
> I actually got it, and had a good experience with it.
> 
> Anyway, i'm up for meeting up with other XO users and seeing how the 
> social features work. I'm interested to see how these areas of the os work.
> 
> Peace
> C
> 
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