Greetings Caryl, I agree with you and in fact I've been very pleased to run Sugar v0.84 at full screen in virtualization on a Mac Mini, following the instructions at this link: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Downloads easily reachable from the homepage of www.sugarlabs.org
(note: the download link onthe "Sugar on a Stick VirtualBox" page appears to be broken it should be http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/appliances/soas2-20090321.tar.gz) We are still updating those wiki pages and the Mac page does need to make clearer that Sugar will only run on an Intel processor Mac. It's a pity because I'm sure lots of schools have older Macs (I have a bunch at the house myself). thanks Sean On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbige...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi... > > The new Sugar manual looks very professional. You folks have done a great > job. > > I was, however, disappointed to find that, although running it on a Mac is > mentioned, the instructions for doing it are not included. The education > world in the US is mostly a Mac world. A lot of people would like to run it > on their classroom machines. > > If it currently only works on Intel based machines, could we at least > include instructions for that? Meanwhile, is anyone working on getting it > to run on Power PC Macs? I have both and can test it whenever it is ready > and you send me the info on getting it. > > Caryl > >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 6 >> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:52:08 -0500 >> From: Anne Gentle <annegen...@gmail.com> >> Subject: [IAEP] status on Sugar Guide for 0.84 >> To: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org, disc...@lists.flossmanuals.net >> Message-ID: >> <1a4c3e670903260652y7221a289x3bc578adef45a...@mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> >> Hi all - >> I am thinking the Sugar Guide is ready for one last look before I publish >> to >> PDF and HTML. >> >> It's still on the WRITE side of FLOSS Manuals, so feel free to do any >> last-minute proofing and edits here: >> http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Sugar/8_4/WebHome >> >> We had some technical hurdles to overcome since it's our first version >> update on a manual (way to lead the way Sugar!). But I think enough bugs >> are >> worked out to allow publishing tomorrow (Friday 3/27). >> >> Final items: >> >> 1. Walter or someone with python knowledge, could you review the >> "Modifying Sugar" chapter at >> http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Sugar/8_4/ModifyingSugar? I had to >> take all the code examples (python and svg xml) and put them into images >> so >> that the PDF generation will work. >> 2. There's a problem with misnumbered chapters for which I've logged a >> trac issue and Aco has taken: http://adam.engagetv.com/trac/ticket/81. >> 3. Walter, David, and Adam - let's talk about getting an ISBN for this >> book if we want to sell it on Amazon. If we do decide to sell it on >> Amazon, >> we'll need a new book cover to match Crown Quarto dimensions. (The >> dimensions are 190mm x 250mm and the page count is 226.) >> >> Thanks, all, for your assistance and patience. >> >> Anne >> >> -- >> Anne Gentle >> email: annegen...@justwriteclick.com >> blog: www.justwriteclick.com >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/attachments/20090326/1344fb05/attachment.htm >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> >> End of IAEP Digest, Vol 12, Issue 92 >> ************************************ > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep