What a G1G1 user wants from an alternate OS

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 11:30 -0800, Sameer Verma wrote:
> > I certainly agree that moving from a six-minute boot to a one-minute boot
> > makes a substantial difference in the user's perception of the system (if
> > not a difference in usability) and that's a very important goal.  But
> > striving for incremental improvements in boot time is, I think, much less
> > valuable to user than an excellent suspend/resume experience (which my
> > MacBook Pro does very well).
>
> I agree that suspend/resume cycle makes a huge difference. Sugar's s/r
> cycle is *very* impressive. Given that it already works in Sugar, I'd
> imagine achieving that in GNOME shouldn't be that much of a stretch.

For suspend/resume on the XO to be supported in Fedora, the patches for
OLPC power management *must* get into the upstream kernel first.  And
that was dependent on also getting the geode gpio stuff detangled from
what I remember.  

Jeremy