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On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Christoph Derndorfer > <e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > even though I've tried to keep a close eye on the breathtaking > > development of SoaS over the past few weeks there are still some basic > > questions I'm wondering about, all related to how well SoaS runs on the > > various netbooks. > > > > * Have the resolution issues, which used to be a major issue w/ running > > Sugar on a non-XO, been solved? > > While not every activity has been modified, most now accommodate > variable screen sizes. All of the activities at > activities.sugarlabs.org work at variable sizes and resolutions as far > as I know. > > > * What about font sizes? > > This is also fixed in Sucrose 0.84 > > > * Do all the activities (incl. collaboration) work reliably on SoaS > > these days? > > Collaboration on SoaS is as robust as collaboration anywhere. (There > is a Google Summer of Code project that will be addressing one general > issue of collaboration robustness--this will be relevant to SoaS and > non-SoaS deployments.) > > There are some NetworkManager issues that need to be worked out in > general regarding Sugar on non-OLPC kernels, but this impacts > connectivity, not collaboration. > > > > * Does SoaS allow for power-management to kick in on netbooks? > > Yes, but currently not the special OLPC XO features. > > > * What exactly are the networking and audio issues that Walter described > > in yesterday's Sugar-Digest? > > AFAIK, the audio problems are fixed in the new Beta. > > We have found some issues with connectivity with a small number of > machines--this seems to be a Fedora issue, not a Sugar issue, and is > being worked on upstream. > > > > > What I'm basically trying to find out is whether *today* running SoaS on > > a netbook is a *real* alternative to XOs with build 767 when it comes to > > classroom settings? > > For the OLPC XO hardware, we are targeting F12 as the timeframe for > the switch. In the meantime, on that hardware, we recommend the 80X > series of builds from OLPC. But by all means, please test SoaS on > your XO hardware (you'll need a developer key) and give us feedback. > On all other hardware, SoaS, while just in Beta, is looking really > great!! > > > > > Thanks, > > Christoph > > > > -- > > Christoph Derndorfer > > co-editor, olpcnews > > url: www.olpcnews.com > > e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com > > _______________________________________________ > > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > > > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >
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