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Topic: Perfect fit for DSL?, One laptop per child.

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punchy

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Posted: Jan. 18 2008,20:48

i have just recieved my xo and its not to bad, but no dsl. can anyone give me some hints as to how to install dsl or ever were to start to figure out if i can. so far this is fun but really but slow when you are used to dsl on new boxes..still a great project, and i can drag this thing everyware and not worry about trashing it.

roberts

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Posted: Jan. 18 2008,21:46

My understanding is that it uses j2ffs and a heavily patched one at that. j2ffs is a journalizing ver2 flash file system. It was created so as to minimize wear (writes) on flash devices. DSL does not currently support that filesystem. When I last looked at it, it was too slow and too bugy. But with all the fine people working on the XO, I am sure that have been many improvements since then.

punchy

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Posted: Jan. 19 2008,00:04

i was thinking about a dsl usb boot but unsure about using grub to boot. i also don't care about accessing the on board flash as usb sticks are cheap and have much more memory then the xo anyways. any thoughs?