[OLPC-Philippines] OLPC Ph Jan.31 meeting

[Caroline Meeks]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:05 AM, Carlos Nazareno <object404 at gmail.com>wrote:

> > I suggest you look into SoaS (Sugar on a Stick) which has been in
> > heavy development
>
> Yup, SoaS is fantastic, but it would involve running setting USB as
> 1st boot device in the bios, something that average users might
> strangely find more daunting that downloading and installing a Windows
> program.
>
> For some laptops too, this may not be an option; most laptops I've had
> my hands on have no bios-tinkering screens.


Our plan is to us a "boot helper CD" as most computers will boot from CD
without tinkering.  Then we can tell power users (like the kids) how they
can do it without the CD if they want to and their computer supports it.

>
>
> Hmmm...
>
> http://sugarlabs.org/go/Supported_systems/Windows
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_on_Windows
>
> It might take a year or two to make a smooth installer but it would
> really fantastic getting Sugar running sweetly in Windows :)
>
> Cheers!
>
> -n
>
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