2008/10/7 Paulo Trezentos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi everyone. > > My name is Paulo Trezentos. > I'm technical director of Caixa Mágica. > > Can you please give me more information about yourselves and the idea?
This hasn't been answered properly, I think :) , specifically about the idea . Eduardo > BTW, I was chairman of Scott Ananian's talk in FISL. > Is the same Sugar project where Scott is involved? > > Cheers. > > > Eduardo H. Silva escreveu: > > 2008/10/7 Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 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? > > > It is hard to say. This would best be answered by them, so I'm CCing > Caixa Magica general e-mail. > > Just for background to Caixa Mágica folk: a new version of the Sugar > learning environment (http://sugarlabs.org/go/Main_Page) has been > released ( http://sugarlabs.org/go/ReleaseTeam/Releases/Sucrose/0.82 ) > and will be in the next versions of some major distros (at least > Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenSuse). The question is, how could the future > users of Caixa Mágica in Magalhães get Sugar with the smallest fuss > possible (for all parties, kids, teachers, schools, but from you as > well)? And some more questions bellow, like, how would packaging Sugar > in Mandriva help you, CM folk, to provide it as an alternative desktop > to the users of Magalhães? > > > Eduardo > > > > 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 > > > > -- > _____________________________________ > | Caixa Mágica > | - Energia Open Source > | http://www.caixamagica.pt > > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
