On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 2:14 AM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarv...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 4 November 2013 22:53, Sean DALY <sdaly...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> * It's not clear to me where we are going. The OLPC/Sugar development >>> ecosystem seems to be at a crossroads. I am encouraged by the web activity >>> work, but don't understand the path of transposing the value proposition of >>> Sugar (interface, Journal, collaboration, Activities) to handheld tactile >>> devices (tablets to smartphones). PCs (of any size) with keyboards are no >>> longer competitive with tablets for grade-school classroom use. Perhaps the >>> XO-4 could still be in the running; there is no clear message from OLPC. >> >> >> >> I'll try to express briefly my feelings about the directions the project >> could take. Note that I might be missing a lot of what is going on above the >> technical level. >> >> * The XO is not a viable hardware platform other than for existing >> deployments. OLPC is pretty clearly going in a different direction. > > I may be alone in thinking that there will be some runway left with > the XO. But deployments need alternatives regardless. > >> * Sugar web activities on the top of a full Android loses too much of the >> Sugar value proposition. It's great to have it in addition to Sugar-the-OS, >> but it's not enough alone. > > I agree. > >> * From the technical point of view there are several ways to get >> Sugar-the-OS running on tactile devices. Unfortunately it's not clear to me >> that any of these devices is open enough to be viable for deployments or >> "ordinary" users. > > We looked at ChromeOS a few years back, but at the time it was too > heavy for our hardware. Today, it is a different story. Might be a > viable option. Certainly running GNU/Linux/Sugar on a ChromeBook is > not a bad starting point.
Given that ChromeOS is locked down I don't believe it's viable to ask a School to have to break/hack the HW to get it working OOTB. Having been involved in the OLPC OS side of things I believe you would be much better taking the work done by OLPC with things like olpc-os-builder and the work upstream with Fedora to use it to build out OS images that will work in a similar way across both XOs and other HW be it x86 netbook or cheap ARM devices rather than reinventing the wheel! Peter _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel