Re: [support-gang] [Sugar-devel] Sugar on a $100 tablet!

2013-09-30 Thread George Hunt
Ruben, Once the sugar rpms's are loaded via the install shell script, what remote ssh command will bring up the sugar desktop on the Nexus? (the sugar-toolkit-gtk3 rpm was not found. I'm wondering if that that is critical to bringing up the desktop). George On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 10:58 AM,

Re: [support-gang] [Sugar-devel] Sugar on a $100 tablet!

2013-09-30 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Ruben Rodríguez ru...@activitycentral.comwrote: 2013/9/29 Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com: Will some of you be at the SF Summit? Yes, I'll be there. I'll be submitting my workshop proposal today. Great! Do submit your proposal soon. We are sorting

Re: [support-gang] [Sugar-devel] Sugar on a $100 tablet!

2013-09-29 Thread Jon Nettleton
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 4:27 AM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi... Will some of you be at the SF Summit? I can bring my XO Tablet if you would like to test Sugar on it. All I ask is that you sweep it clean when finished so I can re-customize it for my grand daughter. It's to be

Re: [support-gang] [Sugar-devel] Sugar on a $100 tablet!

2013-09-29 Thread George Hunt
Just as another data point, Vivitar manufactured the $150 xo-tablet, and also is offering a $100 Camelio tablet which has a similar footprint. It has an external micro SD card, like the xo-tablet, but not the hdmi video out. I purchased one, and contacted the manufacterer, to see if they would

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar on a $100 tablet!

2013-09-28 Thread George Hunt
Ruben, I was able to install the double boot, and ubuntu touch. But when I ran the script http://ubuntu.activitycentral.com/install_sugar_on_nexus_7.sh , a side effect, (verified a second install), was that the ubuntu dash app lens became inoperative, and I was never able to figure out how to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar on a $100 tablet!

2013-09-11 Thread George Hunt
I have a nexus, and I'm anxious to learn how to swap out OS, reload stuff, etc. Does Ubuntu talk directly to the hardware? If so, how much variation is there in the hardware? If most tablets are based on arm SOC's, this might work across many hardware platforms. George On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar on a $100 tablet!

2013-09-11 Thread Mike Lee
I also have a Gen 1 Nexus 7 and would like to try this if it can be done from Mac or Win OS. I'd be particularly interested in the usability of of the basic features of Etoys 5 and Scratch 1.4. I would imagine TurtleBlocks works well. With the procedure characterized as tricky, I may fast follow