It was done by DynEd. I don't see an open source version, but here is their website. Someone else should contact them about an OS version if interested -- I know they tested a version a few years back that never saw use in many classrooms, but was effectively Wine wrapped around their existing code.
http://www.dyned.com/products/lg/scope.shtml SJ On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche <[email protected]> wrote: > Samuel -- Can you provide a pointer to the windows version? I can only find > the Oxford University Press books. > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> A popular program that has been requested a few times via Wine is >> Let's Go for english learning. >> This activity definitely needs its own section on >> wiki.laptop.org/go/Wine ... SJ >> >> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Ben Wiley Sittler <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > That's awesome work! I was able to install Wine and use it, including >> > firefox and a win32 application I had previously build using mingw32 >> > under Linux on another PC and uploaded to a webserver, and then >> > downloaded using firefox inside wine. However, I did notice the >> > following oddities: >> > >> > 1. When I later resumed the activity from the journal, the wallpaper >> > was gone and nothing worked, although the start-menu items for firefox >> > were still there. >> > >> > 2. It was not clear to me how to save wine's state to the journal. >> > >> > 3. At some point the usual 'leave full-screen mode' icon appeared in >> > the upper-right corner, but clicking it seemed to have no effect other >> > than to make it disappear, i.e. no sugar UI appeared and the desktop >> > size did not change. >> > >> > 4. Wine crashed when I used Firefox's download manager to open the >> > location of a downloaded file (winefile appeared briefly, then the >> > whole activity crashed.) I have no idea why yet, but perhaps there is >> > some information left in a log file somewhere I will find. >> > >> > On the bright side, this means it's fairly trivial to run at least >> > some "windows-only" software on the OLPC now, which is great when >> > there's not yet a Sugar or Linux version. >> > >> > -Ben >> > >> > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Vincent Povirk >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The Wine activity has advanced to the point where I think it's ready >> >> for testing by actual users. >> >> >> >> The current package, development history, and my todo list are at >> >> http://wiki.winehq.org/SugaredWine >> >> >> >> The intent of this project is to provide a shell that can be used to >> >> run Windows programs using Wine in the Sugar environment. It should be >> >> good enough that someone used to Windows can grab and install a >> >> Windows program without help, once the activity is installed. Ideally, >> >> the installer and software will both work fine in Wine and within the >> >> hardware limitations of an XO. In this ideal case, someone used to >> >> Windows should be able to operate it without help. >> >> >> >> If it does not live up to this ideal for platinum software (according >> >> to the Wine appdb) whose hardware requirements the XO meets, I want to >> >> know about it and hopefully fix it. >> >> >> >> Wine bugs and hardware limitations mean a lot of Windows programs >> >> won't work or won't work properly. On Linux, one can often push the >> >> compatibility much further than what works "out of the box" by looking >> >> at console messages (the log viewer works for this) and tweaking Wine. >> >> Don't expect everything to work perfectly, but don't give up if it >> >> doesn't. This is normal, even on Linux. >> >> >> >> Winehq.org has support channels for such cases (appdb, bugzilla, >> >> mailing lists, and the winehq irc channel). Most of the people there >> >> probably don't know anything about Sugared Wine, but collectively they >> >> should know more than I do about making Wine work in general. If a >> >> program doesn't work for you, you can go to any of those places for >> >> support. You can also email [email protected]. That goes >> >> directly to me for now, but in the future (maybe the very near future) >> >> I may decide to send it somewhere public, like a mailing list, >> >> instead. >> >> >> >> Wine and the code that I developed for this project are licensed under >> >> the GNU LGPL. The entire package isn't quite LGPL because I included >> >> 7-zip. 7-zip is LGPL + unRAR restriction (you're not allowed to use >> >> the source code to create a RAR compressor). >> >> >> >> If you have a program that works well in this Wine package and would >> >> like to package it as a stand-alone .xo, please let me know. I already >> >> did most of the work for this so that I could include 7-zip and a >> >> firefox downloader/installer (and I could probably have included >> >> firefox itself if not for the fact that it would require uploading >> >> non-open-source code to repo.or.cz). >> >> >> >> Vincent Povirk >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Devel mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Devel mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> Devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > > -- > "Don't think for a minute that power concedes. We have to work like our > future depends on it." -- Barack Obama > _______________________________________________ Library mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library
