[Olpc-socal] Sugar on Ubuntu/Debian - Re: Apple iBooks Clamshell

[Whizman]

> 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.

No, we tested on ia32, not PPC (nor ARM which i'd really like, but anyhow...).
But Ubuntu for PPC is available from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCDownloads
(community supported port, rather than official support, in recent versions).
Also, Debian supports PPC, and has Sugar packages; I think this would yes work.
I'm guessing it would require minimum 256-384M RAM to run usably.
If someone in possession of PPC hardware can try out Sugar on either Ubuntu
or Debian (etc.) on PPC, please let us know via this list, how well it works.
Or if someone is eager to lend us PPC hardware (of which we have none),
so we can try it out, do let us know :)

> 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?

If you dont see a draft within one month, feel free to nag me :)
Quick summary: install Ubuntu/Debian/etc Linux, search for "sugar" in the
package manager, install everything that has real relevance to Sugar,
log out, choose/enter one's username, select *Session* called "Sugar"
(rather than "GNOME" or "Netbook Edition" from the session-chooser,
then enter your password - then you should be in Sugar.

Randall <www.whizman.com>