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roystonlodge:
I was just wondering if anyone has tried tinkering with TinyCore on the OLPC XO.

I just got an XO offa eBay, and I'm trying to decide how to run it.  The easiest option is to stick with the preinstalled Fedora (since it's customized for the XO's hardware) and just change the desktop environment.  There's also a Debian for XO, and a couple of other options.

With only 256MB of RAM and only 1GB of storage, TinyCore could be a nice fit.

bmarkus:

--- Quote from: mavrothal on February 21, 2010, 03:48:26 PM ---There is Now ;D
Builds and sources are [removed: remaster]

BTW I'm trying to get a battery monitor for the XO and since apci is not working the available extension (watcher, flitk) do not work.
I was wondering if there is something similar to xfce GenMon made with fltk where the output of a command or script is shown. Battery scripts from other builds work fine under TinyCore but there is no way to display them.
I do not want to install XFCE, trying to keep it as simple as possible.
So if anyone knows of one or can build one would be nice.

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You may try LXDE. Smaller than Xfce4 and there is a built-in battery monitor panel plugin.

mavrothal:

--- Quote from: bmarkus on February 22, 2010, 01:35:03 AM ---You may try LXDE. Smaller than Xfce4 and there is a built-in battery monitor panel plugin.

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Yes I could, but my point is that having such a simple thing you can have all kind of info from time. to network, to battery. to available disk space, to ram, to what ever you want, by an array of these things independent of any WM/panel/tray/desktop and with limited resource consumption.

Is such a simple basic and versatile infrastructure, I'm surprised is not available in TC ???

PS: Now that I realized your suggestion ( :D) No linux battery monitor will run with XO's battery that is going through the embedded controller. For the official Sugar build they are using a Python(!...) widget to present the output of /sys/devices/platform/olpc-battery.0/power_supply/olpc-battery/capacity which is actually % charged. So GenMon works grate with this.

mavrothal:
tc-xo v0.1 is [removed: remaster]
but still without a battery monitor  :(

Lerc:

--- Quote from: mavrothal on March 17, 2010, 08:58:15 AM ---but still without a battery monitor  :(

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I've got TC up and running on my XO,  I have a battery monitor as part of Plops.  it uses a tiny script to do the actual battery reading so it's an easy mod to make it read the XO battery level.

All-in-all I'm quite pleased with how it's going.  The only downpoint is that there is a delay on launching python (mounting?) which is a pain for scripts that really should be instantaneous launching.

 

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