[dundee] OLPC Videos...niiiiiiiiiice!

[Andrew Clayton]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:29:41 -0800, Gary Short wrote:

> -------- Original Message --------
> > From: Robert McWilliam <rmcw at allmail.net>
> > Sent: 22 January 2008 13:38
> > To: dundee at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > Subject: Re: [dundee] OLPC Videos...niiiiiiiiiice!
> > 
> 
> > Same way the device itself gets there. You send it preloaded with
> > useful stuff. 
> 
> Of course, but (hopefully) there will be new software added to the
> catalogue of available software at regular intervals. Very soon the
> first laptops will become "out of date" and after time, there will
> (again hopefully) be so much software that it can't all be housed on
> the hard drive of just one machine. At that point you have to have a

That would be the flash memory. There's no hard drive as that would be
at least too power hungry and too fragile  

> process whereby new software can be cascaded down to even the most
> remote village. If you don't have such a scheme then you run the risk
> of creating a two tier community - those with access to the central
> repository (though this repository could easily be distributed) and
> those who do not.

One idea I heard was that updates could be tricked down through the
mesh networking.

Possibly also updates could take the form delta packages whereby only
the changed files are shipped not the whole package. Like the yum
presto project with their delta rpms.

Andrew