Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS and new netbooks
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 03:16, Art Hunkins abhun...@uncg.edu wrote: Does anyone know whether SoaS USB sticks will boot onto the new 7 netbooks ($100US)? I wouldn't expect to as they are another architecture (MIPS or ARM, I believe). But shouldn't be too hard to make Sugar run there (it was pretty easy to install Sugar on my N900). Regards, Tomeu The OS is WindowsCE 6.0 professional, and there are 3 USB2.0 ports. Video resolution is 800x480. Art Hunkins ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS and new netbooks
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Art Hunkins abhun...@uncg.edu wrote: Does anyone know whether SoaS USB sticks will boot onto the new 7 netbooks ($100US)? The OS is WindowsCE 6.0 professional, and there are 3 USB2.0 ports. Video resolution is 800x480. Unlikely as anything that runs WindowsCE is likely to be ARM. Do you have a model number? I usually recommend the Acer Aspire One devices. I can't remember exactly the model but I think it was the Acer Aspire One 532 and it works completely out of the box with SoaS v3. Regards, Peter ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS and new netbooks
Excerpts from Art Hunkins's message of Tue Sep 14 03:16:04 +0200 2010: Does anyone know whether SoaS USB sticks will boot onto the new 7 netbooks ($100US)? The OS is WindowsCE 6.0 professional, and there are 3 USB2.0 ports. Video resolution is 800x480. SoaS won't work as it's x86-only. Sugar will run if you get a Linux distribution to work. I had Sugar on Debian running on my mobile phone (HTC Universal) some time ago. It was no fun because it has only 64MB of RAM. If the device has less than 256MB (same as XO-1) I wouldn't even bother trying. Until somebody has spent enough effort to make Sugar run well on low-memory devices (it's a huge effort) your hardware will be obsolete and might not even work anymore. 800x480 is rather on the low side, BTW. Even my phone has 800x600 (on a 3.5 screen). You're going to have quite a bit of trouble with activities that don't scale well. Sascha [1] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Jhbuild#Configure_the_mode_and_resolution_of_Xephyr -- http://sascha.silbe.org/ http://www.infra-silbe.de/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS and new netbooks
Thanks to the three of you (Tomeu, Peter and Sasha) who responded to my query. I will pass on the 7 netbooks for now. The 7 Sylvania model has 128MB RAM and runs a VIA ARM 32-bit CPU (VIA-ARM VT8500). I have several other netbooks (an Intel Classmate and an Asus EeePC900) that accept SoaS just fine. Frankly, I was just wondering about this new $100US pricepoint. Art Hunkins - Original Message - From: pbrobin...@gmail.com To: Art Hunkins abhun...@uncg.edu Cc: sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 4:29 AM Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS and new netbooks On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Art Hunkins abhun...@uncg.edu wrote: Does anyone know whether SoaS USB sticks will boot onto the new 7 netbooks ($100US)? The OS is WindowsCE 6.0 professional, and there are 3 USB2.0 ports. Video resolution is 800x480. Unlikely as anything that runs WindowsCE is likely to be ARM. Do you have a model number? I usually recommend the Acer Aspire One devices. I can't remember exactly the model but I think it was the Acer Aspire One 532 and it works completely out of the box with SoaS v3. Regards, Peter ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] SoaS and new netbooks
Does anyone know whether SoaS USB sticks will boot onto the new 7 netbooks ($100US)? The OS is WindowsCE 6.0 professional, and there are 3 USB2.0 ports. Video resolution is 800x480. Art Hunkins ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
