Thanks a lot for the feedback Peter. I will check these out. For the record, I was thinking about Sugar on Linux on Raspberry, not Android.
On Tuesday, 5 November 2013, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Daniel Narvaez > <dwnarv...@gmail.com<javascript:;>> > wrote: > > On 4 November 2013 23:05, Peter Robinson > > <pbrobin...@gmail.com<javascript:;>> > 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/ > -- Daniel Narvaez
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