Interview with me about the OLPC Pilot in Israel September 1, 2009
Posted by GuySoft in Crictor, Hamakor, ITU, olpc, open source.Tags: august penguin, Crictor, interview, Israel, olpc
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Crictor, the “technology news, for technology people” initiative I actually help found, interviewed me about the OLPC pilot in Israel, during the Israeli FOSS convention called August Penguin. Also, in the convention Netzach gave a talk about the pilot we did, and the new program with open source and eeePCs.
There are English subtitles, now, so enjoy.
You can to visit the article’s page in Crictor.
Today is the first day of school, let us hope the laptop program started here succeeds.
Nokia N810 Running OLPC Sugar May 1, 2009
Posted by GuySoft in Crictor, Hamakor, ITU, linux, Maemo, olpc, open source, python.Tags: arm, debian, Maemo, Nokia, olpc, sugar
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- Sugar running on the Nokia N810
Hey all,
This past week I managed to do something quite interesting. I got sugar, running on my Nokia N810, compiled for armel.
The trick that made it work was thanks to easy Debian chroot, that got me access to installing sugar without a few good hours of compilation for arm (and I did that before).
Touchscreen is cool!
The first thing that I found pretty neat was running sugar on a touchscreen device. It really felt better, since most people that I let play with my XO and flip its screen 180 degrees naturally try touching the screen, expecting it had a touchscreen. Sugar was actually quite good with it on the Nokia.
OLPC Israel’s New Debian Based System for Pilot February 7, 2009
Posted by GuySoft in Crictor, Hamakor, ITU, linux, olpc, open source.Tags: olpc
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OLPC Israel Debian Desktop View
Hey All,
I am Happy to update we have now a working prototype OS for the OLPC pilot here in Israel.
As explained in my last post, we have only B2/B1 laptops that are not compatible with the current sugar version. Because of this we had to develop our own OS that we will put on SD cards and in to the laptops (in the full project we want to use sugar, we did this for the B2s only really).
This system works well also with the normal OLPC units. And I’d be glad if anyone would like to use it copy, and modify.
The system is based off Debian and runs on XFCE. The B2 laptops work with only 128 RAM so we really reduced the memory usage. The kernel on the system is from build 711, which is the last to work with the B2. Still, it works fine on any OLPC. I hope we will have Kernel Headers for the release someone in the future.
I’d also like to take the opportunity for give a huge thanks to Ram-on Agmon who really got the system up and running.
We have 24 Old OLPCs in Israel, for our pilot! December 18, 2008
Posted by GuySoft in Crictor, Hamakor, ITU, olpc, open source.Tags: b2, olpc, pilot
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Hello all big news:
B2 OLPC boxes
I have in my room, 24 B2 laptops!
Dima (ITU alumnai), Netzach (head of Ilan Ramon Center) and I had a meeting with Peres Center for Peace. To our great surprise, the center had 24 B2 laptops, which were laying there for more than a year without any use (if you are yelling “but why?!” then the quick answer is that none had the technical ability to get them truly working).
So to sum up: the pilot can start! .. but wait, there is a catch.
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