[ale] Has Linux gone where Microsoft can't follow?

[Greg Freemyer]

I think it is an issue with writing only, but I'm not sure.

I have no idea how the XO is structured, but maybe the SD boot media
is meant to be read-only except for software updates, etc.

Greg

On Dec 7, 2007 10:56 AM, Jeff Hubbs <hbbs at comcast.net> wrote:
> I didn't think you could use SD et al. for heavy read-write for any
> significant amount of time before the card died.  What's up with that?
>
> Geoffrey wrote:
> > Steve Brown wrote:
> >> On Dec 7, 2007 10:27 AM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> >>> <http://tinyurl.com/ypefvv>
> >>>
> >>> I don't get it.  They claim that you need 2GB to run Office on XP.
> >>>
> >>> Their own website claims you can run Office Ultimate on 256MB.
> >>>
> >>> They say you need 512MB to run XP, so even if it's cumulative, you're
> >>> still only looking at 768MB.
> >>>
> >>> It seems they're talking about storage.
> >
> > Ah, duh.  In this day and age, 3G storage space never occurred to me. :)
> >
> >> The hard disk requirements for
> >> Office Ultimate is 3 gigs (although the XO doesn't have a HD,  hence
> >> the SD
> >> card). I find the whole thing hilarious, because I remember Billyboy
> >> slamming OLPC pretty hard when it first started. I think now they
> >> realize
> >> the impact of having countries grow up on Linux :)
> >>
> >> -Steve
> >
>
>
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