Yeah, collaboration is broken in newer (20+? IDK) fedora versions. That is because of telepathy api changes. We will attempt to fix this in the coming release (0.108/1.0?). That seems to the the consensus about the coming release.
Thanks, Sam On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 7:04 pm Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi David, > > Sorry, this seem to have fallen through the cracks. > > > Iain referred me to a Fedora community where LinuxliveUSB installer was > recommended and it works just fine. It also installs a Linux emulator for > Windows Virtualbox and I found I could run SOAS beautifully in that way. > That is very convenient for my purposes (a quick lead in to Sugar). I also > found few problems booting USB sticks and SD cards installed using > LinuxLiveUSB, on one machine it seems to hang but others it is fine. So it > seems the installer was my issue. > > I've never seen or heard of the above, I've also never used > VirtualBox, glad it works for you. > > > Regarding collaboration, if we have a few PC computers on the same WLAN > running SOAS, can we expect them to see each other and collaborate in > neighbourhood view, without a server (ie. in the same fashion as XOs on an > ad-hoc network)? I seem to recall doing that with early versions of SOAS. > If not, is there a simple/light way to enable collaboration/presence > service on a local server sufficient to allow a few local SOAS machines to > collaborate?. I am familiar with XS developments (up to 0.7) but in the > schools in Vanuatu we'll be using gateway servers we have developed > ourselves based on Debian (Jessie 8). > > I believe there's an issue with recent versions on collaboration, I > don't remember the exact issues, maybe one of the sugar devs can > answer the reasons and when it's expected it can be fixed. > > Peter > > > Best, > > > > David Leeming > > Solomon Islands > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: sugar-devel-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org [mailto: > sugar-devel-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org] On Behalf Of Peter Robinson > > Sent: Wednesday, 22 July 2015 10:58 a.m. > > To: Development of live Sugar distributions > > Cc: Sugar-dev Devel; Iain Brown Douglas > > Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] SOAS > > > > Hi David, > > > > I'm the SoaS maintainer. > > > >> I want to demonstrate SOAS to teachers in Vanuatu. I would like to be > more useful, but actually don't have the luxury of time to research these > arcane technical issues in which I am not an expert. I just want to know, > is there a version of SOAS that is properly tested and known to work? I > have used SOAS many times before (years ago) without any problems. Which > version is stable and will boot without errors and not hang on use? > > > > The lastest stable version is available here: > > https://spins.fedoraproject.org/en/soas/ > > > >> Could be hardware? I will try with another flashdrive. Is 2GB of > persistent storage too little/too much? > > > > 2Gb should be fine. > > > > Ask here on the SoaS list if you've got any other queries or issues. > > > > Peter > > > >> David Leeming > >> Solomon Islands > >> > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: sugar-devel-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org [mailto: > sugar-devel-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org] On Behalf Of Iain Brown Douglas > >> Sent: Tuesday, 21 July 2015 7:52 p.m. > >> To: David Leeming > >> Cc: 'Sugar-dev Devel' > >> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] SOAS > >> > >> Hi David, > >> > >> From what you say, you already did a search for your error message. > >> > >> Does this Fedora forum answer cover your issue? > >> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=301945 > >> > >> I have been working with the script livecd-iso-to-disk and it works > >> fine. > >> > >> I am working on SoaS Loader, here is a link to the work in progress. > >> > >> http://soas-loader.readthedocs.org/ > >> > >> Good luck, and thanks for putting time in trying to demonstrate SoaS :) > >> > >> Iain > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On Tue, 2015-07-21 at 10:51 +1100, David Leeming wrote: > >>> Hello, > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> I have familiarity with Sugar since working with OLPC from 2008, but I > >>> haven’t been active in these communities for some time. I’m just > >>> refreshing myself on current status of Sugar with a view to > >>> introducing teachers to it in a forthcoming workshop in Vanuatu. We’ll > >>> be using tablets as well as PCs so I have familiarised myself with > >>> Sugarizer. I then intended to introduce the wider world of Sugar > >>> conveniently with SOAS. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> So I have downloaded both the 32-bit and 64-bit iso files and verified > >>> their hashes. I also download the latest version of USB Live > >>> Installer. I formatted a fairly new 16GB USB with FAT32 and installed > >>> SOAS on it leaving 2000Mb of persistent memory. The USB stick is a > >>> “SanDisk Cruzer Facet 16GB”. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Immediately I run into problems. When booting (on a fairly recent > >>> Toshiba i7 laptop) it stops with “vesamenu.c32 not a com32r image”. On > >>> pressing Tab key I do not see “Live” as an option, but it does start > >>> with the option linux0. Sugar boots and I can use it for a few > >>> minutes, I tried Speak and Turtle Art for instance, but within a short > >>> time it hangs and needs a hard boot. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> I repeated the whole process with the 32-bit (verified) iso file and > >>> same problem. I’ll give this problem only a few hours as that is all I > >>> have. But I would like to know what are the requirements for a > >>> reliable repeatable experience with SOAS, as it says on the website, > >>> to get Sugar into Vanuatu schools. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> David Leeming > >>> > >>> Solomon Islands > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> 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 > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> SoaS mailing list > >> s...@lists.sugarlabs.org > >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas > > _______________________________________________ > > Sugar-devel mailing list > > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > SoaS mailing list > s...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas >
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