A special linux distribution for developing OLPC applications

[Asko Kauppi]

I'll be making a fink (Mac OS X) development package of Sugar, right  
after they get Gtk+2 dependencies up on par (to >= 2.8). Sometime  
this spring.

-asko


Jim Gettys kirjoitti 4.1.2007 kello 19.27:

> 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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