On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Sameer Verma <sve...@sfsu.edu> wrote: > Hello, > > I had a conversation with our tech folks on campus yesterday, and > Sugar via LTSP (http://www.ltsp.org/) came up. The original discussion > was about LTSP and thin and fat clients, but this group is in the > College of Education, so the conversation drifted towards Sugar. We've > talked about this before, but I'll poke the embers again. Is Sugar > usable via LTSP? Espcially the collaborative part via ejabberd?
Yes, the technology behind LTSP and Sugar Collaboration are completely separate. As such they will work fine together. From an end user's POV you can think of Sugar Collaboration as fancy IM. Sugar depends on Telepathy to pass messages back and forth. > We plan on having a Jaunty-based showcase running in three weeks or > so. If Sugar is usable in that environment, we'll definitely push for > it in this lab. The lab is used by faculty and students from early > childhood ed. and other departments inb CoE. They'd love to bring in > teachers and children from local schools to showcase it. Since you have a very good use case I suggest that you work directly with Ubuntu-SugarTeam to get the lab setup. Sugar on Jaunty currently does not work well. Ubuntu developers got caught in the Jaunty deep freeze. david (the other one) > I'm cc'ing David Van Assche in case he's not on this list (highly > doubtful, though). I am currently using his fatclient script > (http://www.nubae.com/ltsp-linux-terminal-server-project-netbooted-fat-client-for-ubuntu-hardy-and-intrepid) > on Intrepid+GNOME. > cheers, > Sameer > -- > Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. > Associate Professor of Information Systems > San Francisco State University > San Francisco CA 94132 USA > http://verma.sfsu.edu/ > http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > i...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
