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I hope to someday see one of these gorgeous laptops in the wild. At the next OSCON, perhaps? |
I hope to someday see one of these gorgeous laptops in the wild. At the next OSCON, perhaps? |
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* Yes! In fact, IBM donated booth space both my own rocketry club (http://psas.pdx.edu/) and the OSU Open Source Lab, which brought four of their XO prototypes. The XOs were mobbed thoughout the entire conference. |
* Yes! In fact, IBM donated booth space both to my own rocketry club (http://psas.pdx.edu/) and the [http://osuosl.org/ OSU Open Source Lab], which brought four of their XO prototypes. The XOs were mobbed thoughout the entire conference. |
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I made [[Template:Forth Lessons]] |
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I've made my pledge at http://www.xogiving.org/ , and November 12 can't come soon enough! |
I've made my pledge at http://www.xogiving.org/ , and November 12 can't come soon enough! |
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:November 12 came, and I made my purchase early in the morning (my nephew's birthday, as it happens). I'll also need to order a developer key if I want to play around at the OFW prompt. |
:November 12 came, and I made my purchase early in the morning (my nephew's birthday, as it happens). I'll also need to order a developer key if I want to play around at the OFW prompt. |
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::It arrived! Heading over to show it off to my family and nephew... --[[User:IanOsgood|IanOsgood]] 17:22, 21 December 2007 (EST) |
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::First edit from the laptop itself. Rather slow. Nephew was too cranky to use it, but I can now certainly attest that it is kid proof! --[[User:IanOsgood|IanOsgood]] 20:04, 21 December 2007 (EST) |
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:I also found out to my chagrin that there is not yet a version of [[LOGO]] being shipped on the laptop. The turtle-graphics activity [[Turtle Art]] uses a visual programming metaphor with many limitations compared to Logo. [[Etoys]] and [[Scratch]] however look very promising, substituting object-oriented [[Squeak]] [[Smalltalk]] for the underpinnings, instead of functional [[Lisp]]. |
:I also found out to my chagrin that there is not yet a version of [[LOGO]] being shipped on the laptop. The turtle-graphics activity [[Turtle Art]] uses a visual programming metaphor with many limitations compared to Logo. [[Etoys]] and [[Scratch]] however look very promising, substituting object-oriented [[Squeak]] [[Smalltalk]] for the underpinnings, instead of functional [[Lisp]]. |
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Latest revision as of 17:45, 30 December 2007
Forth journeyman. Very excited to see XO using Open Firmware with Mitch Bradley on board.
I've also worked a bit on the lightweight Xlib replacement, XCB. It might be a good fit to the XO's constrained resources.
I hope to someday see one of these gorgeous laptops in the wild. At the next OSCON, perhaps?
- Yes! In fact, IBM donated booth space both to my own rocketry club (http://psas.pdx.edu/) and the OSU Open Source Lab, which brought four of their XO prototypes. The XOs were mobbed thoughout the entire conference.
I made Template:Forth Lessons
I've made my pledge at http://www.xogiving.org/ , and November 12 can't come soon enough!
- November 12 came, and I made my purchase early in the morning (my nephew's birthday, as it happens). I'll also need to order a developer key if I want to play around at the OFW prompt.
- I also found out to my chagrin that there is not yet a version of LOGO being shipped on the laptop. The turtle-graphics activity Turtle Art uses a visual programming metaphor with many limitations compared to Logo. Etoys and Scratch however look very promising, substituting object-oriented Squeak Smalltalk for the underpinnings, instead of functional Lisp.