Re: [IAEP] sugar live cd for windows
2009/10/17 Kevin Cole dc.l...@gmail.com On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 13:59, Manusheel Gupta m...@laptop.org wrote: Dear all, Wish to ask you for pointers to improve the performance of SocialCalc activity while running it on Sugar Live CD for Windows. SocialCalc works very well on the native installation of Sugar. Please suggest. Hi, I just wanted to clarify a possible source of confusion in your choice of wording. A Live CD doesn't run on anything, generally speaking. It implies a CD which you boot the entire operating system from. To the best of my knowledge there are no Live Windows Sugar CD's. This perception that the SoaS or a LiveCD runs on or for Windows is not an isolated case: https://answers.launchpad.net/soas/+question/85331 timClicks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] sugar live cd for windows
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:53, Kevin Cole dc.l...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 13:59, Manusheel Gupta m...@laptop.org wrote: Dear all, Wish to ask you for pointers to improve the performance of SocialCalc activity while running it on Sugar Live CD for Windows. SocialCalc works very well on the native installation of Sugar. Please suggest. Hi, I just wanted to clarify a possible source of confusion in your choice of wording. A Live CD doesn't run on anything, generally speaking. It implies a CD which you boot the entire operating system from. To the best of my knowledge there are no Live Windows Sugar CD's. Just a P.S.: I believe there may be a handful of diagnostic / recovery CD's that are Windows-based and bootable, though very restricted in what they do. But Live Windows CD's that do more than recover or install Windows, I've not heard of such. -- Ubuntu Linux DC LoCo Washington, DC http://dc.ubuntu-us.org/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] sugar live cd for windows
Tomeu, It would be great to have the XO-LiveCD perform at par with the other Sugar distributions. I surely have an interest in the performance of all Sugar distributions. Regards, Manu On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:47 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 20:13, Manusheel Gupta m...@laptop.org wrote: Tomeu, Thank you for the pointer. Yes, we have tried running SocialCalc on Sugar with SoaS as the Sugar distribution. Works pretty well. We'll look into the other distributions as recommended. Ok, so if performance is better on SoaS than in XO-LiveCD, then we have a clue about where to investigate. Do you have a big interest in using XO-LiveCD ? Regards, Tomeu Regards, Manu On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 19:45, Manusheel Gupta m...@laptop.org wrote: Tomeu, My apologies for the typo. I meant Live CD for running Sugar on Windows. We downloaded it from ftp://www.rohrmoser-engineering.de/pub/XO-LiveCD/XO-LiveCD_090722.iso. I confess not having tried it out, but AFAIK that's a normal linux live image. So you don't run windows when you boot that .iso, just linux. Have you tried other linux live images containing Sugar? There's SoaS, Trisquel, OpenSUSE, etc. See in the wiki for links and instructions. Regards, Tomeu Regards, Manu On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 18:59, Manusheel Gupta m...@laptop.org wrote: Dear all, Wish to ask you for pointers to improve the performance of SocialCalc activity while running it on Sugar Live CD for Windows. SocialCalc works very well on the native installation of Sugar. Please suggest. Hi Manu, can you clarify what do you mean by a Live CD for Windows? Regards, Tomeu Regards, Manu -- Forwarded message -- Manu, I successfully installed Social Calc using the Sugar Live CD. The only issue was that SocialCalc didn't show up in my activity list until I restarted Sugar. The response of Sugar is a bit sluggish (which also affects SocialCalc). It's easier to learn a new system when the system's feedback to actions is fast and time-consistent. I would guess that this is not a problem with a native installation. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] sugar live cd for windows
Dear all, Wish to ask you for pointers to improve the performance of SocialCalc activity while running it on Sugar Live CD for Windows. SocialCalc works very well on the native installation of Sugar. Please suggest. Regards, Manu -- Forwarded message -- Manu, I successfully installed Social Calc using the Sugar Live CD. The only issue was that SocialCalc didn't show up in my activity list until I restarted Sugar. The response of Sugar is a bit sluggish (which also affects SocialCalc). It's easier to learn a new system when the system's feedback to actions is fast and time-consistent. I would guess that this is not a problem with a native installation. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] sugar live cd for windows
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 18:59, Manusheel Gupta m...@laptop.org wrote: Dear all, Wish to ask you for pointers to improve the performance of SocialCalc activity while running it on Sugar Live CD for Windows. SocialCalc works very well on the native installation of Sugar. Please suggest. Hi Manu, can you clarify what do you mean by a Live CD for Windows? Regards, Tomeu Regards, Manu -- Forwarded message -- Manu, I successfully installed Social Calc using the Sugar Live CD. The only issue was that SocialCalc didn't show up in my activity list until I restarted Sugar. The response of Sugar is a bit sluggish (which also affects SocialCalc). It's easier to learn a new system when the system's feedback to actions is fast and time-consistent. I would guess that this is not a problem with a native installation. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] sugar live cd for windows
Tomeu, My apologies for the typo. I meant Live CD for running Sugar on Windows. We downloaded it from ftp://www.rohrmoser-engineering.de/pub/XO-LiveCD/XO-LiveCD_090722.iso . Regards, Manu On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 18:59, Manusheel Gupta m...@laptop.org wrote: Dear all, Wish to ask you for pointers to improve the performance of SocialCalc activity while running it on Sugar Live CD for Windows. SocialCalc works very well on the native installation of Sugar. Please suggest. Hi Manu, can you clarify what do you mean by a Live CD for Windows? Regards, Tomeu Regards, Manu -- Forwarded message -- Manu, I successfully installed Social Calc using the Sugar Live CD. The only issue was that SocialCalc didn't show up in my activity list until I restarted Sugar. The response of Sugar is a bit sluggish (which also affects SocialCalc). It's easier to learn a new system when the system's feedback to actions is fast and time-consistent. I would guess that this is not a problem with a native installation. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] sugar live cd for windows
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 19:45, Manusheel Gupta m...@laptop.org wrote: Tomeu, My apologies for the typo. I meant Live CD for running Sugar on Windows. We downloaded it from ftp://www.rohrmoser-engineering.de/pub/XO-LiveCD/XO-LiveCD_090722.iso . I confess not having tried it out, but AFAIK that's a normal linux live image. So you don't run windows when you boot that .iso, just linux. Have you tried other linux live images containing Sugar? There's SoaS, Trisquel, OpenSUSE, etc. See in the wiki for links and instructions. Regards, Tomeu Regards, Manu On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 18:59, Manusheel Gupta m...@laptop.org wrote: Dear all, Wish to ask you for pointers to improve the performance of SocialCalc activity while running it on Sugar Live CD for Windows. SocialCalc works very well on the native installation of Sugar. Please suggest. Hi Manu, can you clarify what do you mean by a Live CD for Windows? Regards, Tomeu Regards, Manu -- Forwarded message -- Manu, I successfully installed Social Calc using the Sugar Live CD. The only issue was that SocialCalc didn't show up in my activity list until I restarted Sugar. The response of Sugar is a bit sluggish (which also affects SocialCalc). It's easier to learn a new system when the system's feedback to actions is fast and time-consistent. I would guess that this is not a problem with a native installation. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] sugar live cd for windows
Tomeu, Thank you for the pointer. Yes, we have tried running SocialCalc on Sugar with SoaS as the Sugar distribution. Works pretty well. We'll look into the other distributions as recommended. Regards, Manu On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 19:45, Manusheel Gupta m...@laptop.org wrote: Tomeu, My apologies for the typo. I meant Live CD for running Sugar on Windows. We downloaded it from ftp://www.rohrmoser-engineering.de/pub/XO-LiveCD/XO-LiveCD_090722.iso . I confess not having tried it out, but AFAIK that's a normal linux live image. So you don't run windows when you boot that .iso, just linux. Have you tried other linux live images containing Sugar? There's SoaS, Trisquel, OpenSUSE, etc. See in the wiki for links and instructions. Regards, Tomeu Regards, Manu On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 18:59, Manusheel Gupta m...@laptop.org wrote: Dear all, Wish to ask you for pointers to improve the performance of SocialCalc activity while running it on Sugar Live CD for Windows. SocialCalc works very well on the native installation of Sugar. Please suggest. Hi Manu, can you clarify what do you mean by a Live CD for Windows? Regards, Tomeu Regards, Manu -- Forwarded message -- Manu, I successfully installed Social Calc using the Sugar Live CD. The only issue was that SocialCalc didn't show up in my activity list until I restarted Sugar. The response of Sugar is a bit sluggish (which also affects SocialCalc). It's easier to learn a new system when the system's feedback to actions is fast and time-consistent. I would guess that this is not a problem with a native installation. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] sugar live cd for windows
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 20:13, Manusheel Gupta m...@laptop.org wrote: Tomeu, Thank you for the pointer. Yes, we have tried running SocialCalc on Sugar with SoaS as the Sugar distribution. Works pretty well. We'll look into the other distributions as recommended. Ok, so if performance is better on SoaS than in XO-LiveCD, then we have a clue about where to investigate. Do you have a big interest in using XO-LiveCD ? Regards, Tomeu Regards, Manu On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 19:45, Manusheel Gupta m...@laptop.org wrote: Tomeu, My apologies for the typo. I meant Live CD for running Sugar on Windows. We downloaded it from ftp://www.rohrmoser-engineering.de/pub/XO-LiveCD/XO-LiveCD_090722.iso . I confess not having tried it out, but AFAIK that's a normal linux live image. So you don't run windows when you boot that .iso, just linux. Have you tried other linux live images containing Sugar? There's SoaS, Trisquel, OpenSUSE, etc. See in the wiki for links and instructions. Regards, Tomeu Regards, Manu On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 18:59, Manusheel Gupta m...@laptop.org wrote: Dear all, Wish to ask you for pointers to improve the performance of SocialCalc activity while running it on Sugar Live CD for Windows. SocialCalc works very well on the native installation of Sugar. Please suggest. Hi Manu, can you clarify what do you mean by a Live CD for Windows? Regards, Tomeu Regards, Manu -- Forwarded message -- Manu, I successfully installed Social Calc using the Sugar Live CD. The only issue was that SocialCalc didn't show up in my activity list until I restarted Sugar. The response of Sugar is a bit sluggish (which also affects SocialCalc). It's easier to learn a new system when the system's feedback to actions is fast and time-consistent. I would guess that this is not a problem with a native installation. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
