On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Gabriel Eirea <[email protected]> wrote: > Fact 1: in Plan Ceibal the XO 1.0 and XO 1.5-HS don't provide access > to root.
Yes, but as Walter indicates, I understand it is allowed in newer OSs. In any case I am aware of efforts to make it available. > This means that Sugar can't be modified by children. Well, that is not correct. You *can* modify Sugar and run your modified version without root. > Fun > things like changing the home view layout or changing the XO icon, > among many other things, are impossible Possible. Not as trivial as yum install foo but a script can be written to automate it. > useless because children can install absolutely no additional software > packages (they can't do "yum install"). Um - again you _can_ install sw in your homedir. Not as practical but possible. cheers, m -- [email protected] [email protected] -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
