Bulletproof boot will assure the success of Sugar on a Stick beyond geeks and even geeky teachers. The installation barrier is what holds back widespread GNU/Linux installs over another OS; SoaS overcomes that.
We don't have a hardware compatibility matrix yet, but we should, and ideally the data could come from Sugar boot attempt logs. I have half a dozen netbooks I will video booting and tag them "Sugar boots!" but a boot time generated log would be even better. I wondered about this in February (http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2009-February/011804.html) but visibly, a major part of the problem is running down who could things that could go wrong - distro side, networking configuration, Activities. It may well be that technical problem X implies filing a "bug ticket", but teachers won't bother doing that if they are evaluating SoaS. They'll just shrug and think it's not ready. if they check back a few months later and still can't get it to work, they'll just mention to their colleagues how unreliable it is. An automatically generated log of what works/doesn't which phones home to us would yield precious data about what's going wrong. I understand this would be quite difficult to code though. And of course, with no network, no phoning - although an access through the Sugar Control Panel could at least make copy/paste into a mail to feedb...@sugarlabs.org possible. Sean On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Sascha Silbe <sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org> wrote: > Hi! > > Just seen mentioned in the Ubuntu Weekly News: Ubuntu had a test stick at > the Atlanta Linux Fest that tried out the usual problematic features (WiFi, > sound, etc.) with the user answering whether it worked or not [1]. So the > user could determine whether Ubuntu should work properly. All test results > were collected by Canonical. > Something like this for SoaS would be really great. > > > [1] http://www.workswithu.com/2009/09/23/will-ubuntu-910-work-on-your-pc/ > > CU Sascha > > -- > http://sascha.silbe.org/ > http://www.infra-silbe.de/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJKwJSKAAoJELpz82VMF3DaSgkH/1d6AxtFtkr/U7JjfbZaHJK+ > bbyMAtIm/Ax+5MQlwLW1/LJ8KW84P2KVJs/c5FgLaR5NsZ3gHWUxi+rbcnvW4Nvc > XVL8oepeKikiZ1khDTh7JkpF4ojUVhv9be9Jah9W4J0hJimCU5Pk8deTMYbi4+xq > vXViTtPjSrPRBBpMX8i370Y3TWwll8xMEXoZJCyogKPYIgQiDHYqrWQ85E8pU9x2 > gZtIF41xJf6D8kJReoma9DTUoItelIgWi9bunWptIp5fxbG+EGm8uOVfa/m3SClL > z8EGcBd54MT68pfLkduVu1gDPg6UR2H7A0umJ5REn7IFNSD1d6eTFfE3GHgzvLs= > =eq3w > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel