Re: Hacking the OLPC XO

2008-01-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 01:30:36AM -0500, phillinux wrote: > Thin clients are nice for a lab, but a lot of educators are looking > for a light cheep machine kids can carry around and take home. A > graphic browser is essential for research and frankly if kids can > listen to music and play w

Re: Hacking the OLPC XO

2008-01-06 Thread Mihira Fernando
On Sun January 6 2008, phillinux wrote: > Did anyone here work on the OLPC XO project??? Not me but maybe some others here have.. > > I'm a teacher who would be interested in adapting the XO for > secondary school students. I would need to get a lightweight version > of open office running on that

Re: Hacking the OLPC XO

2008-01-05 Thread David
phillinux wrote: At 11:31 PM 1/5/2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 10:29:55PM -0500, phillinux wrote: > Did anyone here work on the OLPC XO project??? So back up. what allows Oo.o to run on your linux box now? An X-windows system. You don't even need a window manager.

Re: Hacking the OLPC XO

2008-01-05 Thread phillinux
At 11:31 PM 1/5/2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 10:29:55PM -0500, phillinux wrote: > Did anyone here work on the OLPC XO project??? > > I'm a teacher who would be interested in adapting the XO for secondary > school students. I would need to get a lightweight version of

Re: Hacking the OLPC XO

2008-01-05 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 10:48:24PM -0500, phillinux wrote: > At 10:41 PM 1/5/2008, you wrote: [that's me] > >You can buy the Asus EEE PC for $299, and it already comes with > >OpenOffice.org. > > > >It isn't as cool--no portable charger, no sunlight mode, and so forth, but > >it's closer to what

Re: Hacking the OLPC XO

2008-01-05 Thread David
Scott Gifford wrote: phillinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Did anyone here work on the OLPC XO project??? You can get images of XO to run in a virtual machine to check it out and hack on yourself. I don't remember where I got mine, but I found it easily from their Web site. If you're looki

Re: Hacking the OLPC XO

2008-01-05 Thread Scott Gifford
phillinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Did anyone here work on the OLPC XO project??? You can get images of XO to run in a virtual machine to check it out and hack on yourself. I don't remember where I got mine, but I found it easily from their Web site. Good luck, -Scott. -- To UNSUBS

Re: Hacking the OLPC XO

2008-01-05 Thread David
phillinux wrote: At 10:41 PM 1/5/2008, you wrote: On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 10:29:55PM -0500, phillinux wrote: > Did anyone here work on the OLPC XO project??? > > I'm a teacher who would be interested in adapting the XO for > secondary school students. I would need to get a lightweight version >

Re: Hacking the OLPC XO

2008-01-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 10:29:55PM -0500, phillinux wrote: > Did anyone here work on the OLPC XO project??? > > I'm a teacher who would be interested in adapting the XO for secondary > school students. I would need to get a lightweight version of open office > running on that machine. > > Is the

Re: Hacking the OLPC XO

2008-01-05 Thread phillinux
At 10:41 PM 1/5/2008, you wrote: On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 10:29:55PM -0500, phillinux wrote: > Did anyone here work on the OLPC XO project??? > > I'm a teacher who would be interested in adapting the XO for > secondary school students. I would need to get a lightweight version > of open office run

Re: Hacking the OLPC XO

2008-01-05 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 10:29:55PM -0500, phillinux wrote: > Did anyone here work on the OLPC XO project??? > > I'm a teacher who would be interested in adapting the XO for > secondary school students. I would need to get a lightweight version > of open office running on that machine. > > Is th