I'm not the target market for SoaS but I am a teacher and I know a little Linux and run Fedora11 and Ubuntu9.04 and XP. I hope to one day build a networked SoaS lab from used computers and teach Scratch and etc to my students.
Install instructions for SoaS are a bit of a mess. Here is a page I wrote trying to follow installation instructions exactly from Ubuntu 9.04, with screencasts: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/One_tester%27s_attempt_at_installing_SoaS I spent 90 minutes doing my best to do as instructed but ended with failure. Teachers normally don't put in that kind of effort on strange technologies. I was not successful in my attempt to install SoaS on a USB stick even with support from the Sugar irc (which most users of Sugar/teachers don't use). This makes clears instructions on installation pages on the wiki all the more valuable. My request is simple: Sugar people please review the SoaS installation instructions for your distro on the Sugar labs wiki and try to follow the instructions exactly as written, as I did, to install Sugar on a USB stick and rewrite/clarify/document where possible. As my efforts to install failed, I'm not the best person to write about how it's done. Comments/ corrections/criticism welcome. With thanks to all for the generous support of the past and future! Dennis p.s. I would recommend that the Sugar project make a little more effort to get Ubuntu users who represent 4x as many users as Fedora (http://counter.li.org/reports/machines.php). Getting Ubuntu people to play more with Sugar would seem to be good for the project and for development. I do know that Sugar has a very close relationship with Fedora. _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
