[Sugar-devel] Community XO software builds

[James Cameron]

On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 11:21:35PM -0400, Samuel Greenfeld wrote:
> The obvious counterargument would be that a deployment might want to
> deploy your XO-Next (whatever it is) alongside existing XO laptops,
> allowing all of them to have the same configuration.

I don't think that's likely.  And if it is required, the same set of
Sugar activities or the same user level desktop will suffice.  The
software layers are well isolated; there's no reason to have the same
things all the way down to the kernel.

> Since OLPC already appears to be going the Ubuntu LTS route, I would
> argue it would be easiest to take everything that way, porting
> utilities as required, and make that the final image & build system
> for XOs.

We'll see.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/