[Sugar-devel] LiveCD with image writing activity (was Re: easier installation of soas)

2009-03-02 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 21:47, Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com wrote: Make the LiveCD have a usb maker on the desktop when launched. That sounds like a really really good idea to me. Could we do a Sugar activity that downloads the last stable image and writes it to a usb stick or sd card? How

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.84 Tarballs Due

2009-03-02 Thread Simon Schampijer
Simon Schampijer wrote: Dear Sucrose Maintainers, please provide source tarballs for the Sucrose 0.84 Release [1] by the end of the Second of March and announce them as explained here: http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/Release#Module_release This will be our *Golden Image* - this

Re: [Sugar-devel] Future of Rainbow + Sugar?

2009-03-02 Thread Peter Robinson
To me, Bitfrost was just one more lofty windmill OLPC tried to tilt because it seemed like an interesting challenge.  I'm not clear why Sugar needs more protection from rogue activities than a normal desktop environment has from rogue applications. Reinventing the desktop as a constructivist

Re: [Sugar-devel] easier installation of soas

2009-03-02 Thread Caroline Meeks
here is another site for ideas. Someday it woudl be cool to let people assemble their own Sugar release with language and activity choices. http://www.susestudio.com/ On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Hi, I'm wondering if it may be possible to lower

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Terminal 23

2009-03-02 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hi all, Terminal 23 has been release. Apart from translation updates, it now has a default font size of 10, instead of 8. Enjoy, Sayamindu NEWS: * Change default fontsize to 10 from 8 * New translations XO: http://addons.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/downloads/file/25920/xpi/terminal-23.xo Source:

Re: [Sugar-devel] LiveCD with image writing activity (was Re: easier installation of soas)

2009-03-02 Thread David Farning
When we first made the first sugar on USB keys, Brian Jordan was in contact with the Ubuntu LiveCD/USB guru. May he can restart those conversations:) david On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:51 PM, p...@laptop.org wrote: tomeu wrote:   On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 21:47, Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com

Re: [Sugar-devel] LiveCD with image writing activity (was Re: easier installation of soas)

2009-03-02 Thread Brian Jordan
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:58 AM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.orgwrote: When we first made the first sugar on USB keys, Brian Jordan was in contact with the Ubuntu LiveCD/USB guru. May he can restart those conversations:) Attaching Simon Peter (probono), author of Sbuntu (

Re: [Sugar-devel] Full Licence field

2009-03-02 Thread Kevin Kofler
Elena of Valhalla wrote: no, GPL doesn't[1], a pointer is enough, but GNU FDL does [1] You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/. Not true, that sentence is there to cope with projects which don't

Re: [Sugar-devel] LiveCD with image writing activity (was Re: easier installation of soas)

2009-03-02 Thread Frederick Grose
When it comes time to build the LiveUSB images, one should consider the options, below, from the livecd-iso-to-disk.sh script. Unless a home.img file is created (by specifying a --home-size-mb NNN), the user may be surprised, disappointed, or frustrated with the difficulty in keeping saved

Re: [Sugar-devel] Future of Rainbow + Sugar?

2009-03-02 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 02:08:38PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: The changes to sugar might be minimal but the changes to the underlying OS are not so simple. From my (which is very basic) understanding there is patches to at least the kernel, initscripts, upstart and telepathy and possibly dbus

Re: [Sugar-devel] Full Licence field

2009-03-02 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
As long as it can be overridden (and I presume it could be.) I have a problem in SynPhony of having many contributers to the database content that are stored along with license details in a table within the database. Static info in the software packaging is insufficient. 2009/2/28 Bernie

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Etoys 4.0.2206

2009-03-02 Thread Bert Freudenberg
== Sources == http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/etoys/etoys-4.0.2206.tar.gz http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Etoys/Etoys-100.tar.gz == Packaged == http://etoys.laptop.org/rpms/etoys-4.0.2206-1.noarch.rpm http://etoys.laptop.org/rpms/Etoys-100.xo ==

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] TurtleArt-41

2009-03-02 Thread Walter Bender
== .xo == http://addons.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/downloads/file/25924/turtle_art-41.xo == Source == http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/TurtleArt/TurtleArt-41.tar.bz2 == Features == * updated it artwork == Documentation == http://sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleArt

Re: [Sugar-devel] [support-gang] Sugar Live CD on Mac or PC?

2009-03-02 Thread Luke Faraone
Hi Carol, On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Would it have worked if I had just booted my MacBook from it? Yes. You can choose to boot from a CD by holding the C key before and for the first few seconds after power-on. How would I have used it on a

[Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2009-03-02

2009-03-02 Thread Walter Bender
===Sugar Digest=== We are on the eve of the release of Sugar (Sucrose 0.84). This is the second major release since Sugar Labs was founded and the community has shown great discipline in keeping to the release schedule while simultaneously making great strides in usability and stability. The

[Sugar-devel] Sugar GSoC meeting- wed 17:00 UTC/12:00 EST

2009-03-02 Thread Jameson Quinn
Mentoring organization applications for GSoC are due Mar 9-13, so Sugarlabs have got to get our $#!* together. We need more than 4 mentorshttp://sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/Mentors, a better list of project ideashttp://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/ProjectIdeas, ideas for how to bring

[Sugar-devel] [SoaS-2] Maintainers, please update your packages!

2009-03-02 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi folks, this concerns Sugar Activity Maintainers, as well as Fedora Package Maintainers, which is also the reason, why it was cross-posted. As you might know, the upcoming release of Sugar 0.84 is scheduled for today. Now, how does this concern Sugar on a Stick? Well, we'd like to be able