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On this page you can share your experiences of particular build number with other users.

For example, say which build you tried, what system you were using, and how the build worked for you. This page is just for your reviews. For instructions on how to use the images, look at OS_images.

You can find the latest stable build here.

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QEMU on Linux

Build Name QEmu Version System Info Description username
OLPC Build 553 (stream development; variant devel_ext3) Qemu 0.9.0 kqemu 1.3.0pre11-4 2.6.20-16.29 Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000 1GB RAM; Ubuntu 7.04; Linux 2.6.20 Doesn't boot to Sugar, fails at the initial activation stage HoboPrimate 22 August 2007
stream development; variant devel_ext QEmu 0.8.2 kqemu-1.3.0pre11 AMD64 1G, Suse 10.2 x86_64 Work beautifully; way faster than B1 John ff 07Aug
stream development; variant devel_ext QEmu 0.8.2 kqemu-1.3.0pre11 Pentium M 1.40GHz 512MB RAM, Suse 10.2 Work beautifully; must faster than B1; could not get network working John ff 07Aug
OLPC build 542 (stream development; variant devel_ext3) Qemu 0.9.0 kqemu 1.3.0pre11-4 2.6.20-16.29 Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000 1GB RAM; Ubuntu 7.04; Linux 2.6.20 Boots fine into Sugar. The top activity toolbars are larger than they should. To get internet, followed the instructions in the emulation page. Slow, but usable. The Sugar UI is getting itself together, sweet :) HoboPrimate 6 August 2007
stream-development-build-385-20070406_2335-ext3.img Qemu 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9 Linux Mandriva 2007.0, Toshiba Satellite P100, Core Duo T2300 1.66 GHz, 512M RAM Boots fine and smooth. No sound (might need to preload libaoss on qemu). Network worked after running dhclient in a root shell. Manuel Aguilar. May 26, 2007
stream-development-build-422-20070514_1555-devel_ext3.img qemu 0.8.2
kqemu-1.3.0-1 kqemu-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2948
Fedora Core 6 (x86_64), AMD Athlon mumble, 1GB Runs. No sound. It looks like the ui spec changed, and some activities are still catching up. MitchellNCharity 2007.05.15
stream-development-build-385-20070406_2335-ext3.img qemu 0.8.2
kqemu-1.3.0-1 kqemu-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2948
Fedora Core 6 (x86_64), AMD Athlon mumble, 1GB Works fine with kqemu. Slow without it. Works: network. Doesn't work: sound. MitchellNCharity 2007.05.15
stream-development-build-385-20070406_2314-devel_ext3.img qemu 0.8.2 Fedora Core 6 (x86_64), AMD Athlon mumble, 1GB X startup fails. So "stable" devel_ext3 fails, plain ext3 works. MitchellNCharity 2007.05.15
stream-development-build-318-20070318_1945-devel_ext3.img qemu 0.8.2 Debian unstable (powerpc), iBook G4 1.3GHz 512MB RAM Boots OK; Avahi and HAL fail to start; keyboard, mouse and sound work fine; GUI doesn't start but the only thing you can see on tty7 is a black background and an 'x' mouse coursor and when you switch to tty1, it switches back to tty7 after a while, eventually I only managed to start X with startx and got twm running 2007.03.19
stream-development-build-239-20070118_1355-ext3.img qemu 0.8.2 Debian testing (Etch), AMD Athlon XP 2600 1GB RAM boots ok, works very slowly, no keyboard input, hangs unexpectedly jan 2007.03.02
stream-development-build-239-20070118_1355-ext3.img qemu 0.9 Ubuntu 6.06.1 1GB RAM (qemu had 512MB) works fine, but could not network / browse internet / did not auto-configure networking... You definitely need to put some hint balloons in that GUI, it's hard to understand what's what towsonu2003, 2007.02.17
stream-development-build-239-20070118_1416-devel_ext3.img qeumu 0.8.0 Ubuntu 6.06LTS, Linux 2.6.15-27-386, Centrino 1280MB RAM when Qemu goes graphical, freezes with weird screen garbage ShawnMurphy, 2007.01.19
stream-development-build-239-20070118_1416-devel_ext3.img qeumu 0.6.0-2mdk Mandrake 10.1, Linux 2.6.8.1-12mdk, Athlon XP 2100 , 1536MB RAM when Qemu goes graphical, freezes with weird screen garbage ShawnMurphy, 2007.01.19
build 217 20070105_1724 devel_ext3.img qemu 0.8.2 Debian unstable, Athlon XP 2400 , 512MB RAM Linux 2.6.18.2 (vanilla) Boots fine, but very slow. Apps work, except for abiword which just has a gray screen (same color as frame). No IP, but 'dhclient' fixes that. Changing 'onboot=yes' doesn't help. Got some kernel problems (IRQ4?) when starting vi/nano though, see http://rootshell.be/~ludoa/messages for my logfile