On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarv...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 4 November 2013 23:05, Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Sugar on Android or the Raspberry Pi might have an interesting >> marketing effect but the result would be truly terrible as it would be >> essentially unusable and have a terrible experience. > > > Can you elaborate on why you think it would be a terrible experience on the > Raspberry Pi? I never tested it there, I was just hoping it could be a nice > target...
It's generally not particularly fast and has a number of HW problems, as a "look at how cool we are" I wouldn't be chosing the RPi to run sugar on Android, even on Linux the experience isn't great. >> There are a >> number of other ARM devices that sugar runs beautifully on though. > > > It would also be interesting to know more about these devices. With OLPC > going the Android way, I wish there was at least one popular enough device > on which we could provide a really good experience (with our scarce > resources). Well Fedora produces SoaS on ARM images that will run on any of the ARM platforms Fedora supports. I would be looking at BeagleBone Black [1] (improvements still needed, should be much better soon), Wandboard [2], Utilite [3] (little brother to the TrimSlice) or the CuBox-i [4]. The last of which has the cheapest model at $45 in a case and will be much faster, we should have OOTB graphics for the last 3 devices (all based on the i.MX6) in Fedora 21 (maybe later in the F-20 cycle) and the experience will be much better for little to no price increase over the RPi. [1] http://beagleboard.org/Products/BeagleBone%20Black [2] http://www.wandboard.org/ [3] http://utilite-computer.com/ [4] http://cubox-i.com/table/ _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep