A special linux distribution for developing OLPC applications

[Jim Gettys]

For the moment, as Dan notes, having a full distro is a waste of effort.

Having repositories for various Linux distributions including Ubuntu
would be *really* wonderful, so that people can yum install or apt-get
install and update up to date binaries; that would save people time on
builds.

We'd be happy to host these repositories on laptop.org, where we have a
lot of bandwidth, and happy to help with replicating these repositories
and our git trees around the world, as I know in many countries
bandwidth to outside the country is limited and very expensive.
                           Best Regards,
                                    - Jim Gettys


                            

On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 18:57 +0200, Asko Kauppi wrote:
> 
> 
> Once you do it, I could test in Virtual PC surroundings (both Virtual
> PC and Parallels).
> 
> 
> But is a whole distribution really necessary?  As a multi-os
> developer, and an Ubuntu user, I would appreciate having a debian
> package (s.a. "sugar-dev") bring me all that's needed.  Have you
> considered that route, and why not choose it?
> 
> 
> - Asko Kauppi
> 
> 
> 
> Bryan Berry kirjoitti 4.1.2007 kello 18.38:
> 
> > 
> > Hey guys, we are thinking of building a new linux distribution
> > pre-configured w/ all of the development tools for Sugar and Squeak.
> > The reason for this is that it is fairly complicated to set up
> > Sugar-jhbuild from scratch and download all the development tools
> > and documentation.  Complicating this picture, broadband isn't a
> > reality for most developers where we are (Nepal).  Building
> > sugar-jhbuild from scratch will take days across a 56K line.  
> > 
> > We have alot of talented open-source developers here in Nepal that
> > are very interested in contributing to OLPC.  We can't give everyone
> > of them an XO but at least we can help them started on their
> > existing hardware.  We envision that people all over the world could
> > use this distro for Sugar applications development.   We even would
> > like to eventually build in tools for that non-technical people,
> > such as teachers, could use the distro to create learning materials.
> > 
> > We intend to hand out CDs of the distro at FOSS meetings and
> > computer science Departments.
> > 
> > Does anyone know if a similar tool exists?  We would like to avoid
> > duplicating the efforts of others.  
> > 
> > Here is the basic description of what we have in mind
> > http://wiki.olpcnepal.org/index.php?title=Make_A_Distro
> > 
> > We intend to use Ubuntu 6.10 and subsequent Ubuntu releases.  We
> > don't want to get into the business of patch management.
> > 
> > Let me know what you think. 
> > 
> > Tentatively we are thinking of calling it XO-Buntu (ZO-buntu) or
> > Saraswati after the Hindu goddess of knowledge
> > 
> > Bryan Berry
> > OLPC Nepal
> > wiki.olpcnepal.org
> > 
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