Thanks a lot for the clarifications Martin, much appreciated. Christoph
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Martin Dengler <[email protected]>wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 03:06:05PM +0545, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: > > Apologies if this is a stupid question but what are the differences and > > advantages/disadvantages of a SoaS-on-XO-1 install versus the F11-on-XO-1 > > approach that some are taking? > > They have very similar goals; the main differences in goals, > AFAICS, are: > > 1) release schedule (SoaS-linked vs. OLPC-linked); > > 2) target audience (SoaS-users vs. OLPC XO-1 build users); > > 3) the supported desktop experiences (Sugar alone vs. Sugar and > GNOME) > > But I'm publishing my images mainly because I can. I happen to be > creating them for my own (XO-1) use, and trying to make them useful to > the SoaS people and (hopefully) the F11-on-XO-1 people (in the > future). > > > I'm quite confused about this at the moment as on first sight it seems > like > > both efforts are trying to do exactly the same thing (making the latest > > Sugar run on an XO-1)... > > They are, almost. I'm also a commiter to fedora-xo (though I haven't > had time to do any SoaS or F11-on-XO-1 work lately) and an avid > follower of Daniel Drake, Stephen Parrish, and others' work therein. > So I hope we're not really duplicating much work, though we're > duplicating some git repos and bits-on-disk :). > > > Thanks, > > Christoph > > Martin > -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, olpcnews url: www.olpcnews.com e-mail: [email protected]
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