Hi Edwards On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Edward Cherlin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Fahreddın Basegmez > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have been developing a programmable scientific visualization >> tool/rapid game maker with wxPython for a while. I recently released >> the first public beta version that works on windows only. Now, I am >> going to start working on a Linux version very soon. I have not >> decided which distro to use yet but leaning towards Ubuntu. Could you >> give me some feedback? What is the most popular distro in educational >> institutes/settings? > > It is not at all a choice of just one distribution. We all want what > you are doing, and we cooperate to make it available everywhere. > Packagers for many distributions will take hold of anything that > becomes available from a suitable upstream source. I am copying this > to Jonas Smedagaard, a Debian packager who can give you better advice > than I can on getting started. Anything in a Debian package is likely > to flow through to Ubuntu, Edubuntu, and other distributions fairly > rapidly. > > You can also get help putting your software into Red Hat Fedora, and > from there into another whole stream of distributions. I am copying > this to Greg DeKoenigsberg, a Red Hat community organizer, who can > help you make the right contacts there. > > Those two will get your software launched in all of the most popular > distributions, including several education-specific distributions, and > numerous language-specific distributions around the world. If you > would like to follow up on that, you can contact the localization > groups for Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu. > > Lastly, I would suggest getting your software into Sugar for the One > Laptop Per Child XO and other systems. You should join the Sugar > Development mailing list at http://lists.sugarlabs.org for that. > Again, Sugar software feeds to Fedora, Debian, and so on from there, > and Sugar is being localized into something like 80 languages. Sugar > has well over a million education users, with many more on the way. > >> You can download the application from www.mekanimo.net. >> >> Also I have a 5 min video at >> http://mekanimomedia.s3.amazonaws.com/tangram/Tangram.html >> >> If you try the application, I would appreciate your feedback about that too. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Fahri Basegmez >> _______________________________________________ >> Edu-sig mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig >> > > > > -- > Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name > And Children are my nation. > The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. > http://earthtreasury.org/worknet (Edward Mokurai Cherlin) >
Hi Edwards, I just fired up an Ubuntu 8.10 based PC yesterday and I liked what I saw a lot. I think you are right, Debian should be the starting point. Once it works in Ubuntu (or Debian), porting to Fedora or other systems should be doable too. I talked to Walter Bender in May/07 when Mekanimo was very, very primitive, he and Nicholas Negroponte wanted to include it in OLPC but I was told that wxPython would not run due to some constraints the machines/Sugar had. I realize a lot changed since then ;) Thank you very much for the contact info, I am sure I will need help porting it. Regards, Fahri _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
