Are classmates somehow available to developers? It sounds like making images (or whatever) for them might be a pretty good idea.
On 6 November 2013 16:25, Gonzalo Odiard <gonz...@laptop.org> wrote: > Yes, but we never provided a easy way to install in classmates, > or tried to approach hardware manufactures to propose them to invest on > that. > > Gonzalo > > On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Manuel Quiñones <ma...@laptop.org> wrote: > > 2013/11/6 Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com>: > >> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonz...@laptop.org> > wrote: > >>> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarv...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>>> Hello, > >>>> > >>>> I think Sugar Labs needs to express a clear, realistic technology > roadmap. > >>>> For example, we have been talking a lot about Sugar on Android, > mixing a lot > >>>> of different things under that name. We need to clarify what that > really is. > >>>> > >>>> Here are my thoughts, inspired by the oversight board meeting thread. > >>>> > >>>> * Wait and see what happens with the XO. Support existing deployments > by > >>>> producing images with the most recent Sugar release. Stick to a > Fedora 18 > >>>> base system, the work to upgrade is highly non trivial. Provide > custom rpms > >>>> for the sugar modules and a few dependencies, most importantly > Webkit, which > >>>> is required by web activities. > >>> > >>> In the short term, we don't need backport Webkit2 to F18. In the long > term, > >>> we need find a solution to move to a newer Fedora in the XOs, maybe 20 > or 21. > >>> > >>>> * Ensure web activities run well in web browsers. This will cover > Android > >>>> and other non-Linux systems. > >>>> * Reuse the work done by OLPC on Fedora to get Sugar running nicely > on one > >>>> or two ARM boards (Beagle board black and Cubox-i seems to be the > best we > >>>> could pick at the moment). Talk to the manufacturers to get publicity > on the > >>>> images we produce and devices for the developers. > >>> > >>> Maybe not only ARM hardware. At least in South America, many places > >>> are using Classmates in educative projects. I know talks between OLPC > >>> and Intel were difficult in the past, but is a different world now. > >> > >> Classmates are basically just x86 netbooks, I've not tried it as I > >> don't have HW but I don't see any reason they shouldn't work OOTB. > > > > Yep. Sugar is running in classmates out of the box. In Uruguay for > example. > > > > -- > > .. manuq .. > -- Daniel Narvaez
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