General TC > Tiny Core Netbooks
OLPC XO
mavrothal:
--- Quote from: Lerc on March 25, 2010, 06:26:55 PM ---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.
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So is it actually working on the XO? Plops looks light enough and should be a good match for the XO, if an fltk widget does not come through.
--- Quote from: Lerc on March 25, 2010, 06:26:55 PM ---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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Python is a real hog. Quite frankly I think that is the worse thing that happened to Sugar. Is used to implement an excellent idea in the worse possible way, based on FOSS politics and (misconceived) "ease" of development, wrapped in an "educational" cloak. But that's a different story...
Juanito:
--- Quote from: Lerc on March 25, 2010, 06:26:55 PM ---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.
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Can you use the flit extension for this?
mavrothal:
--- Quote from: Juanito on March 26, 2010, 03:25:15 AM ---
--- Quote from: Lerc on March 25, 2010, 06:26:55 PM ---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.
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Can you use the flit extension for this?
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None of the TC available battery monitors work on the XO (see above). The worse thing is that even the XFCE extension does NOT include GenMon that could be easily used as battery monitor.
I guess someone could recode flit battery monitor module for the XO. I'm just too novice to do it.
But I would guess the simplest and most versatile thing would be a GenMon like widget that will display the output of a script or a command at predefined time intervals.
Any fltk-expert willing for that?...
Lerc:
--- Quote from: mavrothal on March 26, 2010, 03:03:55 AM ---So is it actually working on the XO? Plops looks light enough and should be a good match for the XO, if an fltk widget does not come through.
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Yup, I wrote Plops with the XO in mind. It could stand to be a whole lot lighter still, but it's a featherweight compared to the alternatives. Most of the memory goes in rgba images which at least counts as usefully used memory in my book.
I've got a lot of things going as I had them under Fedora. Plops, PDF reading, Video playing, Doodle. I also got Chromium running which is nice (Remains to be seen if it's too memory hungry though)
--- Quote --- Python is a real hog. Quite frankly I think that is the worse thing that happened to Sugar. Is used to implement an excellent idea in the worse possible way, based on FOSS politics and (misconceived) "ease" of development, wrapped in an "educational" cloak. But that's a different story...
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Indeed, I'm not much of a fan of it either, but I think the delay on launching scripts can be addressed. The main thing that I need python for is ZeroInstall. on the Fedora XO, 0launch-ing a program was close enough to instantaneous. on my Tiny Core XO there's a pause of a couple of seconds, which isn't the best, especially for command line programs that you expect to just happen.
mavrothal:
--- Quote from: Lerc on March 26, 2010, 06:03:36 AM ---Yup, I wrote Plops with the XO in mind. It could stand to be a whole lot lighter still, but it's a featherweight compared to the alternatives. Most of the memory goes in rgba images which at least counts as usefully used memory in my book.
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So is it publicly available? If not could you post it here (assuming that is small enough to fit the attachment limit)
--- Quote ---I think the delay on launching scripts can be addressed. The main thing that I need python for is ZeroInstall. on the Fedora XO, 0launch-ing a program was close enough to instantaneous. on my Tiny Core XO there's a pause of a couple of seconds, which isn't the best, especially for command line programs that you expect to just happen.
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Is debugging/logging enabled in python? This may take a couple of seconds in launch time.
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