[ros-general] ROS on the $100 Laptop?
nitro2k01
nitro2k01 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 7 17:20:37 UTC 2006
I think that for some time to come ROS will be in an alpha stage. Even
though the foundation is getting more and more stable there's still a
lot of small things missing that would make most Windows apps
unusable.
Even as ROS improves I think the target audience will be mainly people
with computer experience, as opposed to the children the laptop is
targetting.
Also I think that linux was made with FOSS in focus. Even though that
ROS is completely FOSS, it seems as if most FOSS projects where made
for *nix platforms, and probably will compile and run better on *nix
based platforms. (Because I believe that these kids will some day want
to download and compile code)
To sum it up, I don't think ROS is ready for such a task, and wont be
in time for the $100 laptop project.
/nitro2k01
On 1/7/06, Tom Lee Mullins <tomleem at comcast.net> wrote:
> Steven Edwards wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >On 1/4/06, Ivan Vodopiviz <merkoth at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Since ROS is still in alpha stage, I don't think it's ready for such a task
> >>yet. There are a lot of features not implemented yet in ROS, and it needs a
> >>lot of debugging and testing.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I am already in discussion with someone with the project about getting
> >us prototype hardware.
> >
> >--
> >Steven Edwards - ReactOS and Wine developer
> >
> >"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
> >that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
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> Since it is an MIT project, one could hope that the science majors
> and/or programming students would see it as a 'learning experience'
> to work with the ROS source code(?).
>
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