Quick DevKey Reminder (fwd)

[Greg Dekoenigsberg]

Note: upgrading the XO is necessary but not sufficient to getting your 
developer key.  Ed is working on the process of getting developer keys 
into developer hands.  More news as I have it.

--g

On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote:

> Hello all.  As you begin to receive your XOs, one of the key things you'll 
> need to do will be to get Developer Keys for the XO.  The XO is set up so 
> that it won't boot a new image unless there's a developer key installed.
>
> In order to do that, Ed asks folks to upgrade the onboard OS on the XO, 
> which is pretty simple.  Instructions:
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olpc-upgrade
>
> --g
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 15:01:49 -0400
> From: Ed McNierney <ed at laptop.org>
> To: Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk at redhat.com>
> Subject: Quick DevKey Reminder
>
> Greg -
>
> While I'm trying to light a fire under folks here to accelerate devkey 
> delivery, please encourage EVERYONE to (a) upgrade to the (signed) 8.2-767 
> release and (b) request a devkey ASAP.  That way they're in the works even 
> if things take a while here.
>
> The upgrade request is simply to make the devkey process easier, so they can 
> find the request page easily and copy and paste the result.  It's not 
> otherwise important for Fedora testing, but a good thing anyway.
>
> 	- Ed
>