{"id":613,"date":"2008-01-26T00:43:33","date_gmt":"2008-01-26T05:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2008\/01\/26\/one-reason-im-glad-i-dont-own-an-olpc\/"},"modified":"2008-01-26T00:43:33","modified_gmt":"2008-01-26T05:43:33","slug":"one-reason-im-glad-i-dont-own-an-olpc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2008\/01\/26\/one-reason-im-glad-i-dont-own-an-olpc\/","title":{"rendered":"One reason I&#8217;m glad I don&#8217;t own an OLPC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hackzine has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackszine.com\/blog\/archive\/2008\/01\/use_an_sd_card_as_swap_space_o.html?CMP=OTC-7G2N43923558\">blog post<\/a> on using a SD card as swap space for the <a href=\"http:\/\/laptop.org\">OLPC<\/a> to handle the following situation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMost of the time, the 256MB in the XO Laptop is sufficient. But I use yum to install software, and it can be very memory hungry. I often run out of RAM when installing more than a few packages at once\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While the hack is definitely a good one to get around a system limitation in the OLPC, it is yet another reason I&#8217;m glad that the OLPC is not on my desk being fiddled with.  For the others who are having fun with it, that&#8217;s great however I have gotten a little tired of dealing with trying to get Linux to behave like a system that I want it to be on resource-constrained systems.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had enough experience dealing with it on the Zaurus.  In general you end up having to have a specialized toolchain \/ user environment in order to deal with things and this can be a fun challenge when you want to use &#8216;standard&#8217; system components to upgrade or install something since you&#8217;ll get into <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dependency_hell\">dependency hell<\/a>.     <\/p>\n<p>Another issue with running outside the rails is the community can sometimes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openzaurus.org\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/26\/openzaurus-time-is-over-long-live-angstrom\/\">fall out from under you<\/a> and you&#8217;re left with the choice of keeping your system at its current state with tweaking or rebuilding your system again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackzine has a blog post on using a SD card as swap space for the OLPC to handle the following situation: Most of the time, the 256MB in the XO Laptop is sufficient. But I use yum to install software, and it can be very memory hungry. I often run out of RAM when installing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1101,1100,260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-linux","category-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}