Update: Lucas has written up some additional technical details - and he mentions our update system, which was one of the first bits I worked on when I arrived. We heavily dog-food the updater, using buildbot to push out the latest bits to developers every night.

Update 2: Welcome, slashdot! The videos at http://litl.com/support/ give a good idea ( Read more... )

It seems I missed a nice little Slashdot/Negroponte/Krstić OLPC/Sugar row while I was away in Europe savoring the efficient intercity rail. While Tomeu and OLPCnews choose to blame particular words or phrases ("Sugar", "$100 laptop"), both J5 and gregdek seem to think the Real Problem was the fact that OLPC wouldn't upstream its patches.

I beg to ( Read more... )

I started work at litl yesterday, did all the necessary administrivia and got a build environment set up, and am typing this today using their software stack. There are a lot of similarities between my old and new jobs: both target poorly served "nonexpert" audiences - in litl's case, families at home - and are taking advantage of the opportunity ( Read more... )