On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 5:34 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?
Yes, that's the reason for this discussion. We have established that Mandriva is interested. Why don't you check out the contact information on their site http://www.caixamagica.pt/pag/a_index.php Caixa Mágica - Notícias Linux Portugal and ask them yourself? http://www.caixamagica.pt/pag/j-cotct00.php Como contactar a Caixa Mágica? Morada: Caixa Mágica Software Edificio Espanha - Rua Soeiro Pereira Gomes Lote 1 - 8º F, 1600-196 LISBOA Portugal Telefone Geral: +351 217 921 260 Fax: +351 217 921 261 Formação: [EMAIL PROTECTED] +351 217 921 260 Atendimento Comercial: (Software e Appliances) [EMAIL PROTECTED] +351 217 921 260 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unidade de Inovação & Desenvolvimento em parceria com a ADETTI. Morada: Adetti - Edificio ISCTE Av. das Forças Armadas 1600-082 Lisboa (Entrecampos) Portugal > 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? > > Thanks, > > Tomeu > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Don't panic.--HHGTTG, Douglas Adams fivethirtyeight.com, 3bluedudes.com Obama still moving ahead in EC! http://www.obamapedia.org/ Join us! http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai For the children _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
