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LAPTOP NEWS 2007-04-07
1. OLPC "Game Jam"- Spieleentwicklung und gleichzeitig Programmierertreffen, um die Entwicklung von Open-Source Spiele für die OLPC Plattform (der sog. "XO") zu fördern. Sie findet nächstes Wochenende am Olin College statt. Ein Gruppe von Spieleentwicklern werden für drei Tage zusammenkommen um soviele innovative Spiele wie möglich zu entwickeln. "Unser Ziel ist es nicht nur tolle Spiele zu programmieren und die Möglichkeiten des XO auszutesten, sondern auch die einzigartigen Möglichkeiten, die dieses Projekt bietet, auf die im nächsten Jahr stattfindende GDC Experimental Gameplay Workshop zu bringen." Der Code wird bei SourceForge unter der GNU-GPL veröffentlicht, damit jedermann frei mit dem Quellcode und den Spielen selbst experimentieren kann.
2. Mechanik: Das mechanische Design des XO ist abschließend beendet. Die letzten großen Punkte- das Einfügen der Gummi-/Plastikohren in das Gehäuse- wurde am 4. April abgeschlossen. Das dafür verantwortliche Kernteam ist: Frank Lee und Victor Chau von Quanta, Yves Behar und Bret Recor von Fuse, Jacques Gagne von Gecko und Mary Lou Jepsen von OLPC. Dies ist die Vollendung von beinahe zwei Jahren Anstrengung bezüglich der ID und mechanischer Dinge. Es ist zu erwähnen, dass viele zur ID/Mechanik beigetragen haben und zusätzlich zu den oben genannten wollen wir uns besonders bei den Nachfolgenden bedanken, welche große Teile dieser Bemühungen schulterten: Quanta: Ben Chuang, Johnson Huang, Sam Chang, Alex Chu und Roger Huang Fuse Project: Mitch Pergola und Martin Schnitzer Design Continuum: Kenneth Jewell and Kevin Young MIT Media Lab: Ted Selker ChiLin: Albert Hsu, HT Chen und Scott Soong OLPC: Nicholas Negroponte, Rebecca Allen, Mark Foster, Walter Bender und Michail Bletsas
3. System software: Build 385 and firmware Q2B87 form a new stable build. We do not anticipate another stable build for approximately 3–5 weeks, as we work on suspend and resume, power management, and the Geode LX bringup. Please update your systems to this build. Key changes and improvements include:
- a fix for a number of crashes in Sugar, which have been seen occasionally became much more common in Build 368 was finally traced to a bug in the fontconfig library;
- updated library content;
- improved UI for selecting networks, and further bug fixes in the network driver;
- fix for LiFePo battery problems (This is the last known battery problem.);
- memory of the WEP wireless key should be much improved;
- updated TamTam bundle (save and restore work properly);
- a new, improved calculator program from Reinier Heeres;
- a temporary workaround for a presence-service problem is in place; and
- sufficient aliases for old X11 core fonts that most applications not yet updated to the current X client-side font model should work (specifically, this fixes a crash in the Adobe Flash 9 plug-in for Linux).
We will have a automated backup script before the next stable build for backup of laptop contents to the school server; this is simply using the "rsync" command which is already included in current builds.
4. Firmware: Mitch Bradley completed preparations to cut over to fastboot/suspend/resume firmware. The Q2Cxx series will include these new features:
- suspend/resume support;
- memtest86 built in to firmware;
- keyboard diagnostic that displays key presses graphically;
- explicit probe-usb no longer needed: attempts to open the USB node automatically handle connection-status changes;
- new boot flash layout per Quanta's request, plus tools to inspect manufacturing data and save it to a disk file; and
- faster boot time.
Lilian Walters released to Mitch the keyboard self-test code and the auto reprobe for USB. Richard Smith released q2b86 and q2b87 with new EC bits that fix outstanding LiFe battery problems.
5. Power management: As mentioned above, we are cutting over to the “C” series of firmware releases as we develop our suspend/resume work. Richard worked on resume SD bug with Pierre Ossman. It seems that after a resume, the clock on the SD is not coming back up right. It starts but then goes away. Richard is still trying to hunt this down. Only SD is not resuming properly now. The resume time without SD is down to 0.23 seconds!
6. Kernel: Andres Salomon did the regular Linux tree merge, merged the libertas wireless driver into the stable tree, and worked on the open firmware (OFW) device-tree kernel patch. The device-tree implementation is going to require a lot of tender-loving-care to get it upstream, unfortunately. Dave Woodhouse diagnosed a latent bug in the JFFS2 file system caused by pretty pathological logging behavior; it will require some work to fix. Jordan Crouse worked on the Geode LX frame buffer driver (lxfb).
7. User environment: Jim Gettys figured out how the old core X font system worked, to enable applications using the obsolete X core font system (e.g., Adobe's Flash 9 plugin) to work properly on our system. Chris Ball tested fontconfig-2.4.2, which Jim correctly predicted as the fix to Sugar crashes that had become very common in Build 368. We had been about to revert the branch prediction firmware workaround instead. Both Chris Ball and Chris Blizzard have confirmed that the crash disappears as of Build 380. Chris also tracked down the Unicode scripts as the cause of our console font becoming tiny. John Palmieri came up with a fix, which is in the latest build.
8. School server: John Watlington reports that we have a school server up and running as a mesh portal in Cambridge. Up to three mesh networks are supported, with routing supplied between each other and the Internet.
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Milestones
Latest milestones:
| Mar. 2007 | First mesh network deployment. |
| Feb. 2007 | B2-test machines become available and are shipped to developers and the launch countries. |
| Jan. 2007 | Rwanda announced its participation in the project. |
| Dec. 2006 | Uruguay announced its participation in the project. |
All milestones can be found here.
OLPC PRESS RELEASES
| Jan. 2007 | OLPC has No Plans to Commercialize XO Computer. |
| Jan. 2007 | OLPC Announces First-of-Its-Kind User Interface for XO Laptop Computer. |
| Jan. 2007 | Rwanda Commits to One Laptop per Child Initiative. |
| Dec. 2006 | Low Cost Laptop Could Tranform Learning. |
Articles
Miscanellous articles can be found here.
| 12 Apr. 2007 | EYF Times| Meet the Scientist: Nicholas Negroponte |
| 11 Apr. 2007 | CNET News| Photos: Nigerian students power up their laptops |
| 11 Apr. 2007 | The News| Poor rural Thai students to get 100-dollar laptops |
| 29 Mar. 2007 | ComputerWorld| OLPC eyes experimental battery for $100 laptop |
Video
Miscellaneous videos of the laptop can be found here.
- A collection of several videos can found at OLPC.TV
- Red Hat Magazine: Inside One Laptop per Child, Episode One
- OLPC Video from Switzerland, 26.01.2007
- Interview with Nicholas Negroponte on the &100 Laptop
- Presentation by Jim Gettys at FOSDEM 2007
- GLOBO- BRASIL: Crianças testam computador portátil/ Students test the laptop
- Mark Foster delivers presentation to Standford University
- Technology Review Mini-Documentary
- A Brief Demo