{"id":846,"date":"2008-07-05T13:14:31","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T23:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=846"},"modified":"2008-07-05T13:14:31","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T23:14:31","slug":"olpc-810-build-703","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/05\/olpc-810-build-703\/","title":{"rendered":"OLPC 8.1.0 Build 703"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t notice until today that OLPC 8.1.0 Build 703 was released a month ago (June 5).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.laptop.org\/go\/OLPC_Update.1_Software_Release_Notes\">What&#8217;s new in the official-703 (8.1.0) release?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The big end-user change is that closing the lid now suspends the XO and opening resumes operation. I was shocked that it didn&#8217;t do this from day 1.<\/p>\n<p>The other big change is that applications (<em>activities <\/em>in OLPC-speak) are now updated separately from the OLPC Sugar OS itself. This makes sense but is a giant pain in the rear to perform. You need to save this separate download to a USB flash drive, reboot, let the updates install, remove the flash drive, and then reboot again. Yikes, Microsoft Windows is not as annoying as this for most application updates.<\/p>\n<p>The OLPC XO has been a huge disappointment. I should have bought an Asus Eee PC 701 instead last winter. At least my daughter might have found that more interesting and actually used it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t notice until today that OLPC 8.1.0 Build 703 was released a month ago (June 5). What&#8217;s new in the official-703 (8.1.0) release? The big end-user change is that closing the lid now suspends the XO and opening resumes operation. I was shocked that it didn&#8217;t do this from day 1. The other big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[240],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netbook-mobile-devices","tag-olpc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-dE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}