[SLL] Great day for linux OLPC

[Lee Colleton]

To those of you whose interest in the OLPC is to "attach a hard
drive", download the image onto your own hard drive and test it out
there.  The people who designed this system included as few moving
parts as possible to keep it rugged and simple.  NAS and USB drives
will expand storage for these units, not hacked in spindle disks or SD
card readers :-P

That being said, I can't wait to see a demo of the mesh networking in
action.  The laptops route traffic through a seperate wireless
subsystem even when the CPU is off.  I would like to see that feature
available for commercially available laptops.  My guess is that it
isn't/won't be a standard feature because it puts people at greater
risk of MITM attacks coupled with the hardware mfrs desire to sell
more access points and range extenders.

--
Lee Colleton

On 1/3/07, Jesse Keating <jkeating at j2solutions.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 January 2007 09:55, Jerry Horvath wrote:
> > Please do bring a unit to LFNW!!!  I'm very eager to operate the unit.
> >  In the meantime, I'll investigate the statement at the end of the BBC
> > article.  That is,
> >
> > "Trial versions of the operating system in development can be
> > downloaded to be tested out by technically-minded computer users
> > around the world."
>
> There are published "images" for the unit.  The OS is more of a firmware for
> the unit in image form.  There are "emulators" that will run it too.
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OS_images for more details.
>
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