Comments on: Ubuntu on OLPC XO anonye?

By: Why I won’t install Ubuntu on my OLPC XO (for now) | Screenage

Why I won’t install Ubuntu on my OLPC XO (for now) | Screenage — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:59:30 +0000

[...] noticed, a couple of days ago I finally received my OLPC XO. Of course installing an Ubuntu flavor was one of my major tasks for the first time, [...]

By: Francisco Athens

Francisco Athens — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:05:39 +0000

I’ve done it based on various howtos:
http://freelikegnu.org

By: Ivan Krstić

Ivan Krstić — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:24:38 +0000

I rolled an unofficial Debian+XFCE build for the XO yesterday:

http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2007-December/009026.html

Ubuntu would be pretty trivial.

By: ccm

ccm — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:22:02 +0000

Thanks for your hints, guys. May main concern is indeed the hardware but actually it’s more open than the Eeepc as far as I got to know. It might be a problem getting wifi with wpa/wpa2 to run which is in a way crucial for daily work (and the fact there is no ethernet plug).

The Debian hint is indeed a good point and hey, I’d prefer Debian than having a Fedora/RedHat system more than not having Ubuntu at all.

Never heard of EmDebian so far, thank you. With my Sharp Zaurus I just dealt with the Debian Arm tree more or less successfully.

By: Kevin Mark

Kevin Mark — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:17:40 +0000

it might be interesting to see EmDebian as its meant for less resourceful embedded systems. IIRC Some bits of the OLPC are not in Debian, so you’d need some non-DFSG stuff to run everything (WIFI?).

By: Christer Edwards

Christer Edwards — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 05:50:04 +0000

I have not run into any information on doing so, but I haven’t looked very hard. I think I’ll most likely keep the default OS on that and use it as a learning tool. I have the EeePC as well, so I get to tinker with Ubuntu on that one

By: Michael Olson

Michael Olson — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:59:40 +0000

There is a page on how to install Debian on the OLPC wiki. It should be reasonably easy to extrapolate the method to Ubuntu. I’m going to wait until the first update of January before trying this, so that I can tell whether the default software is good enough.