On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 7:34 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:03 AM, Bernie Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Morgan Collett wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 21:54, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >>>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Bert Freudenberg < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> Am 29.09.2008 um 11:51 schrieb Morgan Collett: > >>>>> > >>>>>> > http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/27/europe/EU-Portugal-Venezuela.php > >>>>>> > >>>>>> "The blue-and-white laptops — based on Intel Corp.'s Classmate PC > >>>>>> design — are manufactured under license in Portugal and are > primarily > >>>>>> aimed at schoolchildren in developing countries." > >>>>> No word on software - does anyone know more? > >>>> I read somewhere that they will ship with a linux flavor developed in > portugal: > >>>> > >>>> http://www.caixamagica.pt/pag/a_index.php > >>> Not very informative to techies. > >>> > >>>> It's based in Mandriva, maybe we can make sure Sugar is there? > >>> A little more information. > >>> > http://distrowatch.com/index.php?distribution=caixamagica&month=all&year=all > >>> > >>> kernel 2.6.22 > >>> > >>> Originally based on SUSE, now on Mandriva. > >>> > >>> Has anybody tried running the Fedora Sugar packages on Mandriva? > >>> > >>> Do we need a distro lab where we can run lots of VMs at once? > >> > >> More information, although I'm not sure how credible: > >> > http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/740ao/venezuela_orders_1_million_intel_classmates_this/ > >> > >> "The 30 GB hard drive is partitioned in 3 drives. 10GB Windows and > >> 10GB for Caixa Mágica (Portuguese commercial Linux distro), and 10GB > >> for the user profiles. All computers will dual boot the two OS by > >> default." > > > > Very interesting. Someone should contact the people behind Caixa > > Magica and propose Sugar running on top of their OS. > > > > Here is some comtact information: > > http://www.caixamagica.pt/pag/j-cotct00.php > > > > Now, who speaks Portuguese here? ;-) > > Eduardo, do you think the Caixa Magica guys would be interested in > packaging Sugar for CM and/or Mandriva? > Everyone is interested in packaging Sugar:) The challenge is engaging people enough that they are willing to share the effort of spreading Sugar to the world! > David, have you already approached the Mandriva community about this > as part of your outreach efforts? Do you know of any effort on which > CM could build their own packaging work? > I will follow up with Caixa Magica. The google translate tools have become my friends. thanks david
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