s/Sugar/Sugar on a Stick/ Still, it should just show up as Linux (USB).
2009/5/20 Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]>: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 04:26:18PM +0100, Lucian Branescu wrote: >>And is distinguishing between other linux distros and Sugar even >>desirable? >> >>My macbook is off to be repaired so I can't test, but AFAIK both the >>SoaS and the .iso should be recognised as Linux by rEFIt and booted. > > Sugar is *not* a Linux distribution! > > OLPC is/provides a Linux distribution, in that it contains the classic > GNU/Linux base (Linux kernel + some GNU userspace tools) and the Sugar > desktop environment on top of that. > > SoaS is a Linux distribution too. > > MacOS X is a non-Linux distribution, consisting of the Darwin base with > Aqua on top. > > Debian is a distribution providing (in testing and unstable at least) a > choice of multiple bases (Linux, kFreeBSD, Hurd) and multiple desktops > (GNOME, KDE, XFCE, LXDE, GNUstep and a half-baked Sugar). > > Sugar itself is distributed (as is most free software), but is not an > operating system + some userspace. > > > I would suspect that rEFIt not recognize X11 desktops, and not userspace > parts - only kernels. > > But even if rEFIt recognizes desktops, how to then resolve which is the > _main_ desktop, and if the main desktop is the preferred environment > over e.g. the terminal or some virtual (X11-based or not) environment. > > > Hope that clarifies (and feel free to disagree with my judgements!). > > - 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) > > iEYEAREDAAYFAkoUMKkACgkQn7DbMsAkQLhxwwCfTfaMnDN9Xf+4hmSHk+kCGWBP > rnYAoIYMb7mBK8Xgx4DJs0LGXxtETiP2 > =Dz99 > -----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
