On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:58, Luke Faraone<l...@laptop.org> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 15:29, Tomeu Vizoso <to...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: >> >> > One thing we spoke about here locally was getting some thin client >> > device that was really certified to work with Sugar and whatever >> > distro... It would be a necessary requirement for country level >> > deployments... >> >> Sounds good, what's the work that needs to be done in order to reach >> there? > > Sorry to revive an ancient thread, but I recently met with some of the folks > from NComputing at a recent conference. They seemed very interested in > getting Sugar "verified" as working with their thin-client-like hardware, so > that they can offer it as a supported (by them) option to their deployments. > I'm currently in the process of getting it to work with the most recent > releases of Fedora and Ubuntu, and will report back with my progress. >
A few months ago, Mark Beckford, VP of Business Development for nComputing showed up at one of the DC Learning Club / DC Sugar Labs "business" meetings (as opposed to our regular monthly meetings). Apparently there's a lot of common ground between us: He spoke of how nComputing is doing deployments of their equipment to small, underserved schools in Africa. -- Ubuntu Linux DC LoCo Washington, DC http://dc.ubuntu-us.org/ _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep