[NBLUG/talk] Reviving an OLPC XO-1 laptop

[Anet Dunne]

My sister and I donated ours back to OLPC.  I sent my to a teacher in the
U.S.  Here is a link that might be useful.

http://www.olpcnews.com/laptops/xo1/donate_your_unloved_xo_laptops.html

They were SUCH a great idea.

On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Lincoln Peters <anfrind at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have an XO-1 laptop from the "give 1 get 1" program (circa 2008?) that
> has been sitting in storage for over five years, and I wanted to find a new
> use for it.  It looks like it's powerful enough that I could use it e.g. to
> control a couple of headless server via SSH, but I noticed that the OS is
> based on Fedora 9, which is so old that there's no clear upgrade path for
> it, and it has numerous unpatched security flaws such as GHOST.
>
> Has anyone tried to upgrade the XO-1 to a newer OS?  Is it worth the
> effort?  I see on the OLPC website that they offer kits that you can use to
> upgrade the hardware (which presumably include a new OS), but I don't know
> if I want to go that far yet (even if the original hardware IS less
> powerful than a Raspberry Pi).
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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