Puppylinux Racy for the XO-1
mavrothal:
=== UPDATE: Racy 5.3 Apr. 6, 2012, BELOW ===
=== New 50MB Puppylinux Saluki below. March 3, 2012 ===
As you may know if you follow XOpup, you can now build any recent puppylinux version for the XO, automatically.
So I build the final version of, Puppylinux Racy 5.2.2 for the OLPC XO-1.
At just 90 MB is the same as XOpup-2.2, but it includes the full Mozilla Seamonkey suit, Gnumeric spreadsheet, homebank, printing, camera, scanning and CD/DVD support and even a softphone application!
Flash is not included but will automatically offer to download and install it as soon as you connect to the internet. Though given that this is an XO-1, you are better off without it...
In general it feels faster than anything else I tried on the XO-1 so far (though seamonkey is on the "heavy" site), so if this is important to you, give it a spin ;D
It does has some tradeoffs though. Being a T2 build, does not have compatibility with any other major distro, thus the available applications are considerably more limited to, say, Ubuntu.
It also lacks a full udev version (with extras) since it does not compile on Racy/T2. So I had to resort to the XOpup-2.1 power management (that does not detect user activity as such, if from an external mouse/keyboard). But other than that everything works fine, including the camera.
I think is a handy and fast OS for the XO-1.
So I made a tarball of it that, like XOpup,
1) You download Racy5.2.2_XO.tar.gz (md5sum: 828d129d623b8dab5f08d5b5c477fe9b)
2) Expand at the root of any USB stick or SDcard
3) Put it on your unlocked XO-1 and power up
4) Connect using "Network wizard" (sorry, no Frisbee...)
5) Report any issues (I'll try some "polishing" if demand and issues)
This build is for XO-1 only and I made it since the automatic build system will not quite work with Puppy Racy. If you want any other puppy on your XO, just build it ;)
PS: For development, download and use the standard devx_racy_5.2.2.sfs.
The default urxvt terminal application does not work properly in the presence of the olpc-kbdshim keyboard daemon. Install lxterminal from the PPM if you intend to do some terminal work.
PPS: If you use the earlier 5.1.1 build, the Nov 23 5.2.2 build will update your save file and keep your data and settings.
XOIOWA:
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mavrothal:
Here is a picture of the latest puppylinux development offering: Saluki puppy.
Is based on puppy Racy but spots the XFCE desktop, panel and plugins (like the legendary teapot's ubuntu) and supports all the XO functions.
Currently early in development but at 62MB (without office and audio/video applications) looks promising ;)
KalSeth:
Tell me more tell me more, like does she have a car?
Saluki sounds intriguing. Any progress on it?
When you say supports all XO functions does that include Screen rotation?
I like to rotate and use the game keys for navigation with ebooks.
What does Saluki mean?
Thanks Mavrothal
mavrothal:
Quote from: KalSeth on January 29, 2012, 12:58:12 AM
Tell me more tell me more, like does she have a car?
Saluki sounds intriguing. Any progress on it?
When you say supports all XO functions does that include Screen rotation?
I like to rotate and use the game keys for navigation with ebooks.
What does Saluki mean?
Thanks Mavrothal
Saluki is (presumably) the fastest breed of dogs ;)
Saluki puppy is developing fast (check the link above) and is mod'ed to an XO version just fine with all XO functionality included.
Just entered beta stage so is a bit early for prime time builds.
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