For long-term security and support, we could adopt the Linux model: push
this concern down to the distributors and let them do a profitable
business out of it.
This creates a sustainable market for Sugar. Linux distributors who
have successfully built a reputation for offering good
So, a possible solution could be calling the product marketed by SLs
Sugar on a Stick and each individual team and product Fedora Sugar
on a Stick, OpenSUSE Sugar on a Stick, etc. From time to time SLs
would decide to call and market as Sugar on a Stick a particular
release of a particular
Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
2009/9/20 Philippe Clérié phili...@gcal.net:
So, a possible solution could be calling the product marketed by SLs
Sugar on a Stick and each individual team and product Fedora Sugar
on a Stick, OpenSUSE Sugar on a Stick, etc. From time to time SLs
would decide to call
I think you're right on the money.
I can understand why a teacher may not be interested in this discussion.
Still, the debate is also very relevant. It's about how we're going to
address your aunt's concerns.
Think of it this way: nobody wants to know how sausage is made, right? Well,
we're
Isn't there a wider question first? the one that asks if Sugar Labs is
actually interested in being a distributor rather than just an
upstream.
Sugar Labs needs to be a distributor because:
1) You need a product to market. The comparison with Gnome does not hold.
There have always been
someone please give me a
pointer? Or a recap?
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Philippe
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The trouble with common sense is that it is so uncommon.
Anonymous
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 10:58:23 Peter Robinson wrote:
2009/9/16 Philippe Clérié phili...@gcal.net:
Isn't there a wider question first? the one that asks
So you probably disagreed with my statement that SoaS is not about
installing user files to a hard drive. Or do you mean having the Base
OS on the drive, but the user files/activities directory on a stick?
My use case does not require the user's environment to be portable. At least
for
+1
I made a similar suggestion a couple of weeks back.
Thinking as someone who will probably be in it up to his neck, on the
teaching side, what I would like to see is a polished distribution,
installable on a hard disk, released once a year around April-May. That will
give me all summer to
SoaS is a great way to distribute Sugar, but it will certainly never be
*the* way, as long as all these other people are around, working hard
on other distribution mechanisms.
But, it could *the* way SugarLabs does it. As you correctly point out, other
people will always be able to do
