Re: Looking for community managers or enthusiasts!

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 23:54 -0500, Chris Leonard wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 08:40 -0500, Chris Leonard wrote:
> >> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:39 AM, Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk> wrote:
> >>
> >> > If you've got a fast CPU and reasonable but unusupported graphics
> >> > hardware then it's usable but not great.
> >> >
> >> > No idea what Gnome 3 is like on a Raspberry Pi which would be the most
> >> > useful other guide as its got fairly snappy graphics but naff CPU and
> >> > relatively limited memory (512MB now)
> >>
> >> I suggest keeping an eye on the OLPC hardware as a low-end hardware
> >> benchmark for the GNOME desktop.  As for "market share" there are over
> >> 2 million XO-1 and XO-1.5 out there and AFAICT the ARM based XO-1.75
> >> is shipping and the touchscreen enabled XO-4 (in may ways similar to
> >> the XO-1.75) is on the way soon (FWIW ,I like the prototype I test
> >> on).
> >>
> >> OLPC builds are dual boot in Sugar and GNOME and I would love for
> >> GNOME to consider these users in their decision making.
> >
> > Have you shipped GNOME 3 on any of those, and, if so, were you using
> > GNOME fallback or GNOME shell?
> >
> 
> You can see the packages used for x86 and ARM builds respectively, for
> the most recent development build from OLPC
> 
> http://build.laptop.org/13.1.0/os11/xo-1/31011o0.packages.txt
> 
> http://build.laptop.org/13.1.0/os11/xo-4/31011o4.packages.txt
> 
> These are basically Fedora 17 (or 18) spins. I can't really answer the
> fallback or shell question as I do not fully understand the details.

Do they have OpenGL acceleration available? You say that we should
consider them in our decision making, but the majority (all?) of us
don't have access to them, so we rely on people like you telling us
about those things.