Sounds like a solid approach to an easier path to installing Sugar. I'll try testing it this weekend. Thx.
On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 8:53 PM, Ryan Cunningham <storybo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Sugar Labs, > > I am Ryan Cunningham, an active user of the Sugar Learning Platform > (even now as I compose this message!). I have autism and seizure > disorder and have contributed prior work to Sugar Labs, including > changes to the "About My Computer" configuration panel to render the > GNU GPL in a monospace font (because it is a plain text file with a > 79-character margin). > > According to Red Hat's Brand Standards, Mohandas Gandhi said "First > they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you > win." (Though no evidence was found that Gandhi actually said this.) > This quote inspired Red Hat's journey as a company, from the > open-source outlier in a Windows 98 world to the provider of > technology serving as the backbone of many of today's Web sites. > > What if we said the same thing about the journey of Sugar Labs? What > if Sugar Labs broke through a world of American educational computing > now dominated by Chrome OS? > > I believe the best way that Sugar Labs can do so is to market its > software to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). By doing so, the > Sugar Learning Platform can achieve a wider market share in > more-developed countries and be accessible to more students, teachers, > and parents. > > In order to aid with doing so, I am hereby releasing under the GNU > General Public License, version 3 (or any later version), a script > (called "Sugar Factory") which will install and configure the Sugar > Learning Platform to run on any desktop, laptop, notebook, or tablet > computer in the process of manufacturing or preparation for secondhand > sale. This script uses a hard-coded partitioning scheme where all > files reside in the root partition--except, for UEFI-compliant > systems, a 512-megabyte EFI System Partition will be created at the > beginning of the disk and mounted at /boot/efi. (GPT partitioning is > not supported.) > > Original equipment manufacturers that use this script may either flash > the operating system (which is a modified version of Sugar on a Stick) > directly to each device, or create an intermediate image and flash > that (which is a /lot/ faster). Also, they may make whatever > modifications they desire (or none at all) to the finished operating > system, and may choose to use the Sugar, Python Powered, and/or Fedora > Remix logos on the packaging and/or other promotional materials of > products that contain it. > > I have also attached the license and the output from my last test run > of this script (which was successful). > > Sincerely, > > Ryan Cunningham > > _______________________________________________ > SoaS mailing list > s...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas > > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org <http://www.sugarlabs.org>
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