Maybe you could rephrase you call for a show of hands: raise your left hand if you regularly use Sugar on an XO; raise your right hand if you use regularly Sugar on other hardware. Clap your hands if you use Sugar more than a standard WM.
Now listen to the sound of one hand clapping (the right hand)!! -walter On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 10:02 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > marco pesenti gritti wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > CCing the Sugar list. > > and adding devel. > > > > > > > It seems that one of the problems we will be encountering with generic > > > spins is footprint. Even a standard Ubuntu without Sugar was seeming > > > too fat to load from a LiveCD on a Pentium 4 with 256K of DRAM. > > > > I'm planning to dogfood the Fedora LiveUSB and I'll have a look to > > memory usage while doing so. In principle, unless there are relevant > > memory costs given by running on a LiveUSB, I'd expect it to work > > decently. > > i've been curious for a while -- can we have a show of hands for > how many people dogfood the existing XO s/w? > > for my part, i don't, to the extent that i yum-install xfce and > run that. so there's little memory pressure, and i don't run > activities, nor networkmanager. but i'm still running the kernel > and most of the system software. i can quickly switch to running > sugar, and i do, when i discover something that i think needs > investigating on a more "real" installation. i think even my > limited "dogfooding" has been useful -- the bugs i've found or > helped diagnose have tended to be power management issues, and > some yum package management issues. > > i _really_ think we need to make the XO base _and_ sugar be a > place that developers are comfortable living in. our needs > aren't quite the same as a school kid's, but i think there's a > much bigger overlap than we often think. with the advent of the > fedora spin we're going to lose xo/sugar mindshare among our > g1g1 and development users [1], and i think we need to think > seriously about taking up that slack. even if that means adding > some "poweruser"-centric features which a grade-schooler would > probably never use, it's worth considering, in return for the > increased focus, and yes, discomfort it may cause. > > paul > [1] but i think we'll gain in overall project mindshare, so in net > i'm in favor of it. > =--------------------- > paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar