Re Mac: It's my understanding Intel procs only, no PPC, is that right?
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 09:17:19PM -0800, Caryl Bigenho wrote: >>I am working on a presentation I will be doing about OLPC and Sugar at >>a huge educator's conference in Palm Springs next week. I realize I >>need some nitty-gritty type info about the current state of Sugar >>emulation on PCs and Macs. Can anyone fill me in on the latest, most >>up-to-date answers to these questions? Maybe Luke? Anyone else? > > I don't have the answers to your question, just want to perhaps clarify > one bit of it: > > I suspect that when you say "emulation" you really mean "used natively > in other system environments than the initial one of an XO laptop". > > 1) Sugar on XO laptops on their Fedora-based system > > -> Install an official OLPC "build" on an XO > > 2) Sugar on various Linux systems as an own desktop > > -> Install an unofficial OLPC "build" on an XO > -> Install Sugar packages on a major system and invoke as desktop > -> Build Sugar locally (using e.g. jh-build) and invoke as desktop > -> Boot from a LiveCD or LiveUSB (e.g. SoaS) that starts Sugar desktop > > 3) Sugar on various Linux systems inside an emulated X11 screen > > -> Install Sugar packages on a major system and run sugar-emulator > -> Build Sugar locally (using e.g. jh-build) and run sugar-emulator > -> Boot from a LiveCD or LiveUSB that invokes sugar-emulator > > 4) Sugar on Mac or Windows by emulating some Linux system > > -> Boot from a LiveCD inside hardware emulator (eg. VirtualBox) > > If I understand the term correctly (which I might not) then in none of > these cases Sugar itself is emulated. > > Perhaps (depending on how finegrained you want to understand these > issues) it might make sense to distinguish differently between kinds of > environments than just the word "emulation" > > > - Jonas > > - -- > * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt > * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ > > [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkmqVUcACgkQn7DbMsAkQLjpTQCgjzklouS5AFXokQi5Lp08zZYw > XFYAn2cHQIBlAkSZioo/7sqZWnVnvl1m > =ypLy > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
