{"id":449,"date":"2009-06-11T19:04:46","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T19:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/?p=449"},"modified":"2009-06-11T19:04:59","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T19:04:59","slug":"xo-15-development-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/archives\/2009\/06\/xo-15-development-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"XO-1.5 development underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The OLPC tech team recently flew out to Quanta in Taiwan to bring up the first handful of test boards for the next generation XO laptop, known as the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.laptop.org\/2009\/04\/17\/announcing-the-xo-15-updated-hardware-for-the-xo-laptop\/\">XO-1.5<\/a>. The new laptop is basically a refresh to solve the difficulties that occur when you continue to try and source 2-year-old technologies in bulk, but will result in core improvements at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>The Geode processor from the XO-1 has been end-of-lifed; the new laptop uses a VIA C7 CPU with the brand-new VX855 chipset. The flash storage and RAM have been quadrupled, providing 4GB and 1GB respectively.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m now joining the efforts for a few weeks, helping out on the software. We&#8217;re aiming to make a new &#8220;deployment quality&#8221; software release, including the newer version of <a href=\"www.sugarlabs.org\">Sugar<\/a> and a generally more-up-to-date system based on Fedora 11. I received my A-test board today, it is already booting into Sugar and is quite functional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The OLPC tech team recently flew out to Quanta in Taiwan to bring up the first handful of test boards for the next generation XO laptop, known as the XO-1.5. The new laptop is basically a refresh to solve the difficulties that occur when you continue to try and source 2-year-old technologies in bulk, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gentoo","category-olpc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}