On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 12:41 PM, David Van Assche <dvanass...@gmail.com> wrote: > So, this Sunday marks a special day for us openSUSE folks, as we've now > managed to get pretty much every activity behaving, including the underlying > journaling and collaboration. We've got more than 50 activities packaged and > included in the live cd/usb/dvd/virtual appliance. By using the incredible > flexibility and power that oBS gives us, with just 2 people working on this > project, we've managed move forwards fast and efficiently. So we are proud > to announce that you can download the latest releases here: > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Education/images/ > > As you can see, the main directory contains .vmdk virtual appliances which > have been tested to run on both Vitualbox (Sun's free virtual container > system) as well as vmware and its host of virtualisation software.
Very Cool! Although Sugar on Sugar on Suse in VirtualBox on my netbook got a little slow.... But, it still seemed snappier than XP on the same machine once I set up an anti-virus package. > Advantages to running an appliance include bypassing wireless/wired network > card drivers as the host can really be running pretty much anything from OSX > to Windows. Yep, let the parent OS worry about the hardware, let the VM worry about the container, and let Sugar worry about helping kids learn. This will also be a way to get Sugar running on any Mac > regardless, and pretty much and hardware. Its also a good way to run sugar > on ed/ubuntu and debian based systems. Though a tad slower than on a native > system (running without virtualisation), the advantages clearly outweigh the > disadvantages. In the iso subdirectory you can find pure sugar or the full > openSUSE-edu suite, containing a good 2.4 gigs of educational material > including an icon to launch sugar directly from the desktop, a live LTSP > system, iTalc, and a host of other interesting software. For more > information on virtualisation, vmware, virtualbox and how to get sugar > working within these environments have a look here: > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VMware Can you or one of the Sugar on Suse team update the rest of the download links on wiki.sl.org thanks david > Currently the only application not running is Read, which requires some > updated GDK stuff from gnome 2.26, which is currently not entirely working > with Sugar on openSUSE, but within the next weeks we should be able to > resolve this. We are searching for more activities to include, as well as, > seeing what we can do artistically at the different stages such as booting > up, session manager, etc. Currently we automatically get the system to join > the sugarlabs ejabberd server for collaboration, and after testing quite a > few applications we can confidently say this works quite well. So its nice > to see openSUSE being one of the more advanced Sugar environments now... > seeing as a couple of weeks ago we had a very broken environment > > kind Regards, > David Van Assche > www.nubae.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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