[OLPC India] Minutes of Meeting of OLPC India Conference on 18th April, 2008

[Sameer Verma]

Marc Valentin wrote:
> I just want to add this : XO-LiveCD is nice but for those wanting to
> participate to the creation of manuals, tutorials or software
> development, using Virtualization is the way to go : with VMWare,
> VirtualBox,... (see wiki.laptop.org)
> You can work in MSWindows or Linux or Mac having the XO open in a
> Window... very useful for taking snapshots for example.
>   
I would second that. VMs are great for documentation.

Sameer
> -marc-
>
> On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
>   
>>  There is also a
>>  perception that if you don't have an XO, you can't really do much. This
>>  is not the case if you are using a live CD though. The current batch of
>>  Live CDs (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/LiveBackup_XO-LiveCD) provide a
>>  large proportion of the functionality that one would see on an XO.
>>  Perhaps this avenue should be explored more. After all, its really a
>>  Fedora-derived distro. You could very well run an entire classroom of
>>  these LiveCDs on regular desktops and still avail the features of Sugar!
>>