[sugar] Sugar USB testing

[Caroline Meeks]

Feedback on
http://www.sugarlabs.org/~marco/sugar-livecd-1marco.iso<http://www.sugarlabs.org/%7Emarco/sugar-livecd-1marco.iso>

Wow! It runs on my 128 MB RAM Pentium II!

I don't have a duplicate of the Shaw 256MB computers but clearly this is a
great sign.

One odd thing to report.  When I tried to start Calculate it thought for a
while, but didn't open it and went back to the home page.  This happened on
my 2GB Pentium 4 machine as well.

This is great progress.  Thanks!

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
<mpgritti at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Caroline Meeks
> <caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
> > Just downloaded. Will burn a CD shortly and test on the machines I have
> here
> > before I leave for the weekend. I'll be back Tuesday.
> >
> > What is the process of going from a CD to a USB?
>
> Right now I think the only way is to run a command on a Fedora box.
> Something like this.
>
> livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 512
> livecd-fedora-livecd-sugar-200810091224.iso /dev/sdb1
>
> There is  also a tool for Windows, Sebastian is working on getting it to
> work.
>
> >> > Boot Helper CD
> >>
> >> Do you have any pointer about this? I can look at it and see what it
> >> would take to make it work with Fedora liveusb.
> >
> > ftp://ftp.slax.org/SLAX-6.x/slax-boot-usb-from-cd-6.0.7.iso
> >
> > and our discussion on it:
> > http://www.slax.org/forum.php?action=view&parentID=21028
>
> Thanks, I'll look at it.
>
> >>
> >> > Instructions on how to add an Apps such as GIMP
> >>
> >> Sugar support for normal desktop applications is suboptimal at the
> >> moment. We are working to address it properly in this release cycle.
> >> Admittedly GIMP is probably the hardest application to handle, because
> >> of his unusual windows model.
> >>
> >> In the meantime it's possible to use the X activity to run gimp:
> >>
> >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/X_Activity
> >>
> >> And yeah writing instructions of how to get gimp to work using this
> >> approach should not be hard.
> >
> > Cool, should be good enough for now.  I was impressed at the "iphone app
> > store" mentality.  They all immediately wanted to install apps on it.  I
> > think this is a great thing and a great path towards getting students to
> > create apps.  But this is a long term issue, not something to be solved
> this
> > month.
>
> There are a lot of activities that can be downloaded and installed
> (with a single click) from http://wiki.laptop.org/Activities
>
> >>
> >>
> >> > A Jabber Server for them to collaborate (nice to have)
> >>
> >> David might have better insight than me on this one, since he is
> >> working on sorting out Sugar Labs infrastructure. OLPC is also working
> >> on setting up a server I think, so using that one is another
> >> possibility.
> >
> > I may have the resources to do this, I'll talk to the sysadmin I work
> with.
>
> Note that Sugar requires a special jabber server. I'm ccing morgs
> which could give you more informations on this.
>
> It's also possible to collaborate without a server on the local
> network, but it doesn't scale much. Still could be a way to at least
> show the collaboration features.
>
> > Longer term, I have a vision of having hundreds of middle and high school
> > developed country service+technology oriented kids with Sugar.  Someone
> > comes out with a new app or a new release and they want it tested they
> put
> > it out to this list and get quick feedback.  These kids are also a
> potential
> > grassroots marketing arm into the elementary schools as we encourage them
> to
> > demo to their old teachers.
>
> I had more or less your same vision when I read your blog post :)
>
> Marco
>



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Caroline Meeks
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