Ubuntu has decided to demote AbiWord, a core component of
sugar, to Universe. As a Ubuntu user you might like to comment on this
at bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/503578
From this reply, maybe it's good to have all of Sugar in universe?
We have a dedicate repo for Sugar in
http://www.livemint.com/2009/10/29231117/The-question-of-open-source.html
But the more important aspect of open source software is the fact that
it is “free”. This freedom follows from the nature of the licence
(called the GNU general public licence, or GPL) that open source
software is
If you have a minute please test:
http://activities-testing.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/
It's the first time I come into this page, and it looks very cool!
I have two complains though: the color scheme looks nice, but the
contrast level (mostly the light blue text) seems a little low to me:
Then I have a thin client network using LTSP-KIWI Opensuse that does
not work well. It is two servers and 72 thin clients.
I have a mobile laptop lab of 24 PC that are R30 thinkpads.
My question is I found this site and wondered if I can use Sugar as
an application on my thin clients.
Rubén, Apple Intel Macs can indeed boot from USB drive with the
bless command, see for example:
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2009-September/019920.html
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2009-May/005882.html
I didn't know, thank you.
But as I see, you need to
1). Live CD boots and runs fine on a MacBook Pro (though has no
wireless network, or camera support, and screen redraw was a little
slow in some activities so I guess no or little use of gfx hardware
acceleration).
Trisquel is fully free, so we lack of several hardware drivers (no
6. Rubén Rodríguez Pérez has released an updated
[http://devel.trisquel.info/trisquel-sugar_3.0RC_i686.iso Sugar on
Trisquel build] with Honey Activities installed. He also added a
graphical usb-creator application.
From now on, the path will be this one:
http://devel.trisquel.info/sugar
I filed a request at
http://trisquel.info/en/issues/please-include-bootolpcfth-ext2-bootable-parition
with an example patch at
http://www.martindengler.com/~martin/tmp/makedistro.patch - but I
don't know the environment so it might be totally the wrong place for
inclusion of olpc.fth.
It
I filed a request at
http://trisquel.info/en/issues/please-include-bootolpcfth-ext2-bootable-parition
with an example patch at
http://www.martindengler.com/~martin/tmp/makedistro.patch - but I
don't know the environment so it might be totally the wrong place for
inclusion of olpc.fth.
We
Will you be working on an LTSP Sugar? LTSP has amazing benefits on
cost of ownership when you view it on a per computer basis.
Sugar is already working in our Trisquel edu based LTSP server. :)
I'm hoping we eventually get an LTSP/USB solution that still lets the
student take their
El vie, 02-10-2009 a las 20:40 -0400, Caroline Meeks escribió:
Thanks Ruben Great news!
I think besides freedom the other word that comes to mind is Power.
And a lot of it!
To see a room with 25 old computers and monitors on all day and I
think all night...that is a waste of Power.
El jue, 01-10-2009 a las 22:04 +0100, Martin Dengler escribió:
On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 10:47:57PM +0200, Rubén Rodríguez Pérez wrote:
You can find more info here: http://trisquel.info/en/trisquel-sugar
Thanks for the info.
Two questions:
1) May I ask why you are creating a Sugar spin
All of these distributions come with the core (Fructose) activities;
some, such as openSUSE, come with many additional (Honey) activities
pre-packaged.
We've just added the Honey pack to Sugar on Trisquel, and also the
graphical usb-creator app. The (430MB) iso url is the same:
Thanks to the packages Aleksey made last week, we have been able to
build a new Trisquel+Sugar iso, this one using the latest Sugar on top
of the latest Trisquel, and also fixing the bugs from the first release.
It works nicely on wired or wireless computers, the installer is now
Sugar themed,
Hello everyone,
I'm Rubén Rodríguez, from Spain. I'm the main developer of Trisquel
GNU/Linux, a fully free distro endorsed by the FSF. We are working on a
Sugar powered live/installable system using Trisquel, which was briefly
introduced during the FSF Software Freedom Day event. Many thanks to
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