Re: [Sugar-devel] Maintaining the sugar-live-build

2020-10-28 Thread Martin Guy
Gah, this default-reply-to-author-only choice is inconvenient. Forwarding... Thanks Joe, that all sounds like good stuff. On 28/10/2020, D. Joe wrote: > a long (if haphazard) connection to using live images I'm a big fan of Live CDs since that technology became possible in 2002ish, not only for

Re: [Sugar-devel] Maintaining the sugar-live-build

2020-10-28 Thread D. Joe
On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 12:27:56AM +0200, Martin Guy wrote: > So, as I'm a retired Unix wizard with spare time, I'm looking at the > idea of offering to maintain SLB. > > The directions I'd like to go in are: > - to modify SLB to update metacity to a working version (3.34 instead > of Debian buste

Re: [Sugar-devel] Maintaining the sugar-live-build

2020-10-27 Thread Chihurumnaya Ibiam
I agree with what you said and not supporting 32bit systems makes us only focus on a particular set of users and ignoring the other set. I'm glad you've decided to do this and I'll help whatever way I can. Thanks. -- Ibiam Chihurumnaya ibiamchihurumn...@gmail.com On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 4:06

Re: [Sugar-devel] Maintaining the sugar-live-build

2020-10-26 Thread James Cameron
I'm used to it. OLPC faced this same type of deprecation threshold back in 2014 and 2015 with loss of AMD Geode instructions used in the XO-1 laptop. It wasn't only the kernel, it was also the WebKit JavaScript JIT compiler. There was nothing in compiler run-time that did check if the instructio

Re: [Sugar-devel] Maintaining the sugar-live-build

2020-10-26 Thread Martin Guy
On 26/10/2020, Chihurumnaya Ibiam wrote: >> Fedora Soas boots into a lightdm login screen without ever telling you >> that the required username is "liveuser". > Yes there's a discussion for the bug here [...] Thanks for that > I don't know how to build SOAS images yet but you > can find F29 SOA

Re: [Sugar-devel] Maintaining the sugar-live-build

2020-10-26 Thread Chihurumnaya Ibiam
-- Ibiam Chihurumnaya ibiamchihurumn...@gmail.com On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 11:28 PM Martin Guy wrote: > Hi all, first post here. Old Unix hack, new to live-build and Sugar. > > Short version: The cheapest used laptops are 32-bit but all Sugar Live > images require a 64-bit CPU. Only sugar-liv

Re: [Sugar-devel] Maintaining the sugar-live-build

2020-10-23 Thread James Cameron
Thanks for the patch. I've merged and reviewed it. I like your plan. This is good. The good is not the enemy of the perfect. However, if you want to explore the perfect; ask Debian Project to get Metacity fixed in Buster so that Sugar works properly in Debian and Sugar Live Build. I've not tr

[Sugar-devel] Maintaining the sugar-live-build

2020-10-23 Thread Martin Guy
Hi all, first post here. Old Unix hack, new to live-build and Sugar. Short version: The cheapest used laptops are 32-bit but all Sugar Live images require a 64-bit CPU. Only sugar-live-build can easily be rebuilt without much technical knowledge, but when built suffers from a metacity bug which ma