[ale] Has Linux gone where Microsoft can't follow?

Ned Williams nedj10 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 10 09:31:11 EST 2007


SD on the XO is meant to be temporary mass storage, nothing special.
Supposably the inclusion of the SD slot on the XO was at the request of MS
to begin with.

strange,
Ned



On 12/7/07, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think it is an issue with writing only, but I'm not sure.
>
> I have no idea how the XO is structured, but maybe the SD boot media
> is meant to be read-only except for software updates, etc.
>
> Greg
>
> On Dec 7, 2007 10:56 AM, Jeff Hubbs <hbbs at comcast.net> wrote:
> > I didn't think you could use SD et al. for heavy read-write for any
> > significant amount of time before the card died.  What's up with that?
> >
> > Geoffrey wrote:
> > > Steve Brown wrote:
> > >> On Dec 7, 2007 10:27 AM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com>
> wrote:
> > >>> <http://tinyurl.com/ypefvv>
> > >>>
> > >>> I don't get it.  They claim that you need 2GB to run Office on XP.
> > >>>
> > >>> Their own website claims you can run Office Ultimate on 256MB.
> > >>>
> > >>> They say you need 512MB to run XP, so even if it's cumulative,
> you're
> > >>> still only looking at 768MB.
> > >>>
> > >>> It seems they're talking about storage.
> > >
> > > Ah, duh.  In this day and age, 3G storage space never occurred to me.
> :)
> > >
> > >> The hard disk requirements for
> > >> Office Ultimate is 3 gigs (although the XO doesn't have a HD,  hence
> > >> the SD
> > >> card). I find the whole thing hilarious, because I remember Billyboy
> > >> slamming OLPC pretty hard when it first started. I think now they
> > >> realize
> > >> the impact of having countries grow up on Linux :)
> > >>
> > >> -Steve
> > >
> >
> >
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