<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 20:05, David Farning <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dfarning@sugarlabs.org">dfarning@sugarlabs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Caroline Meeks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:caroline@solutiongrove.com" target="_blank">caroline@solutiongrove.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:42 PM, David Farning <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dfarning@sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">dfarning@sugarlabs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<b>Clinic next door to a School</b> - A health clinic located right
next door Sasha's school has a close partnership with the school. Many
students are scene there so they decided to add a donated computer to
their waiting room just for kids to use Sugar. This computer still has
its hard-drive, but its dedicated for Sugar. Some of the basic sugar
files are located on the hard drive and it is set up to allow students
to log out rather then shutting down and restarting between each
student.
<br><br>This is an very interesting idea. A hybrid harddrive usb solutions. From a technology perspective it would not be that hard to implement. When the computer boots from the hard drive it waits at a login prompt for the user to either login or insert a USB with the users /home directory. The current generation of linux distribution has excellent support for DBUS to communicate the status of hot swapped devices such as USBs. <br>
</blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Great idea. We can also make the USB stick (assuming it has enough storage) bootable, allowing for use wherever. <br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<b>The Zoo</b>: ....<br><br>This seems very similar to the clinic.</blockquote></div><div><br>Interestingly when I discussed this with Marco the Zoo is hard use case. Everywhere else we can assume the kids are all attending the same school district, thus we can assume they are all running the same version of Sugar. For the Zoo we might have kids from different towns all coming with Sugar USBs but different versions. This might be harder to support. </div>
</div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Well, assuming that the host has a few gigs of harddrive space, we can suggest that the Zoo keeps muliple sugar versions (say... a copy of each one that was backwards/forwards incompatable, a list we'd provide). <br>
<br>-lf <br></div><div> </div></div><br>