Demonstration build

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Demo Laptop

There are many capabilities of the XO that aren't easy to demonstrate on a standard build. The idea for this project is to set up an XO that can show off some of the features described below.

  1. dual-boot with a Fedora/Gnome or Edubuntu setup (via SD card)
    • with any simple hacks to speed up launch -- perhaps a dual-boot OpenWRT?
  2. full-screen full-motion video (ogg)
  3. video from m.youtube / an online source
  4. the best that can be done with mpeg & rm
  5. multichannel audio
  6. streaming audio from an online source
  7. bookreaders
    • pdf (evince)
    • js (flipbook, ICDL, jresig)
  8. smooth Flash animation (Gnash)
  9. the best that can be done with Adobe Flash
  10. text-to-speech
    • Speak
  11. videochat or at least audiochat
  12. drawing w/ stylus
    • phun / elements / crayon physics
  13. Full-fledged firefox
  14. Opera
  15. New Sugar UI and config screen
  16. Faster load time (now in joyride)
  17. a plot of battery strength/usage over time, however crude, like what the Prius offers for gas conservation
  18. a compressed view for the Journal (or a way to link directly to a compressed view)

There are also a number of activities whose demos should be focused down to a couple of minutes, whose components could all be set up in advance; I'm thinking about how to effectively walk through them, without waiting to long for each one to load and set up, but without having more than one in memory at a given time. Is there some way to launch an activity while simultaneously demanding/reserving a block of memory, potentially killing other processes when starting up to improve the repeatability of demo length?