OLPC 1.5 Hardware Upgrades Include Java, Full-Screen Video 67
griffjon writes "OLPCNews covers the sneak-preview of the updated One Laptop Per Child 1.5 hardware version. The good news is: full-screen YouTube videos, Java, and access to the gnome desktop. Read more about the updated hardware and chipsets in the fine article."
Re:Full screen youtube? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Full screen youtube? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Full screen youtube? (Score:5, Informative)
Well, keep in mind, full screen on the OLPC isn't as big as on other machines. And if their new hardware has a GPU of some sort, some of the decoding and stretching can be offloaded.
If you're referring to the screen resolution it's 1200x900 [wikipedia.org] which is well within notebook class.
Re:Fragmentation, different perf. targets... (Score:4, Informative)
It is a bit of a shame, but the work is being done.
I'm sure we could use more help, so dig in:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_XO-1 [laptop.org]
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-olpc-list [redhat.com]
hth,
adric
Re:Java in hardware?! (Score:2, Informative)
Say hello to Jazelle. [wikipedia.org] Though from wikipedia it seems to do some translation between the bytecode where necessary.