[Olpc-socal] Sugar & GDM on Ubuntu - Re: Apple iBooks Clamshell

[Caryl Bigenho]

Hi...
If I am reading this right, it is potentially huge!  Are you saying that you have been able to run a version of Sugar on a PPC (Power PC)?  There are so many of these older Apple G3 machines still out in homes and schools, that having the ability to bring "new life" to them through using Sugar would be a very important step towards bringing this open source software to thousands (or more) children.
Would it be possible for someone to write up a very detailed, non-technical explanation of how to do this to post on the Sugar Labs and or OLPC wikis?
Caryl

> From: info at whizman.com
> To: olpc-socal at lists.laptop.org
> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:15:39 -0700
> Subject: [Olpc-socal]  Sugar & GDM on Ubuntu - Re: Apple iBooks Clamshell
> 
> We are pleased to say that Sugar is now running on Ubuntu-Lucid-10.04 for us.
> As far as I can tell, the versions of Sugar we have are the same as
> originally reported in
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/542338
> To the best of my understanding, it started working after Ubuntu updates
> applied a patch to gdm
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/542345
> 
> Randall
> http://whizman.com
> 
> _____________________________________________________________________________
> 
> 
> From: Whizman Software Solutions
> To: "OLPC Southern California OSSIE" <olpc-socal at lists.laptop.org>
> Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 17:59:11 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Olpc-socal] Apple iBooks Clamshell
> 
> Idea: try education-desktop-sugar on Debian on PPC.
> If you have a chance to try that, I would be very interested to hear
> the result.  We have no PPC hardware, and we have tried sugar-emulator
> on Ubuntu, only, not on other distros.
> 
> In our testing, Sugar worked in Ubuntu 10.04alpha, both as a session and
> when started as an application under GNOME; but no longer worked under
> 10.04beta nor 10.04 release.
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