Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] Testing Sugar Activities Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-21_Beta-4

2014-11-22 Thread Thomas C. Gilliard
On 11/22/2014 04:58 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: On Fri, 2014-11-21 at 11:55 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: Hi Iain, Can you copy the attached file to the path where the help activity is installed and confirm if the problem is solved? Yes, Help now starts and displays complete with images.

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] Etoys in RC4 SoaS-v7 does not start when jabber is connected. ( f17 release is imminent )

2012-05-27 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
On 05/27/2012 05:37 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: I have been testing the RC4 f17 release of SoaS [1] and I see a problem with e-toys: If jabber.sugarlabs.org is connected via a wireless AP, or wired network, e

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] Fedora-17-Beta-TC2-i686-Live-SoaS testing results

2012-03-19 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
) for a persistent USB-stick [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796489 Art Hunkins - Original Message - *From:* Thomas C Gilliard mailto:satel...@bendbroadband.com *To:* SoaS mailto:soas@lists.sugarlabs.org ; Sugar Devel mailto:sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org *Sent

[SoaS] Fedora-17-Beta-TC2-i686-Live-SoaS testing results

2012-03-18 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Please look at this: These activities need to be fixed Abacus etoys read Tom Gilliard satellit_ on #sugar Test results: * http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#Fedora-17-Beta-TC2-i686-Live-SoaS Fedora-17-Beta-TC2-i686-Live-SoaS *

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] Fedora-17-Beta-TC2-i686-Live-SoaS testing results

2012-03-18 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
a restart will stop them.) Write 78 seems to fix this. My first tests were done with an empty journal. Read actually works very nicely. Cordially; Tom Gilliard satellit_ on #sugar On 03/18/2012 04:53 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] Record with camera and microphone input on VirtualBox / VMWare

2012-03-01 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
On 03/01/2012 11:22 AM, Gary Martin wrote: On 1 Mar 2012, at 15:31, Peter Robinsonpbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Caryl Bigenhocbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi SoaS folks... plus Greg! If you do find a way to do this it would be wonderful. But, it will have to

[SoaS] Fix for Browse 131.xo on XO-1 os833- (how to remove it)

2012-02-08 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
If you drag-drop Browse 131.xo to an XO-1 on os833 (sugar 0.94) you will find that browse will not start and you cannot erase it (greyed out option). Effectively you have lost your Browser. (browse 131 and 130 are not compatible uses gtk +3**) There will be a lot of releases of new

[SoaS] Announcing: ASLOxo-6-3 DVD -Updated: Added new activities from the sugar-devel list up to: 01/21/2012

2012-01-22 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
This is what I have been using to test activities with in a DVD format: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit/sck/Activity_Matrix#Most_Recent-Activity_Test_Results Cordially; Tom Gilliard satellit_ on #sugar * http://download.sugarlabs.org/images/ASLOxo6-3.iso 3.2 GB (DVD)

[SoaS] Fedora-17-Nightly-20120120.10-i686-Live-soas.iso is first Nightly Compose to Boot. (Testing report)

2012-01-21 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Finally the Nightly Composes work. First look at f17 Soas: -liveinst fails -no wireless AP or Ad-hoc -Cat-5 wired network OK. -liveusb-creator makes live USB's Preliminary report; http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#Fedora-17-Nightly-20120120.10-i686-Live-soas.iso

[SoaS] Announcing 2 New Items

2011-12-27 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Announcing 2 Items I took advantage of the lack of activity on the wiki on Dec 24-25 to work on the following: 1-) Introduction to the sugar interface.iso [1] A set of Annotated screen shots as Web Page.html files with the accompanying folder containing the files for the .html Intended to

Re: [SoaS] Sugar on a Stick/Project sitemap

2011-12-20 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Iain; http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit Is a front-end to a lot of these pages. Be sure to check the links on it before moving pages into an archive. Thanks; Tom Giliard satellit_ On 12/20/2011 07:02 AM, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: Solstice greetings, I have just created the

Re: [SoaS] [IAEP] [Testing] I would like feedback on the How_to_use_the_IRC_Application wiki page

2011-12-13 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
as a geological oceanographer, so my writing style may reflect this.) On 12/13/2011 02:20 PM, James Cameron wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 07:41:07AM -0800, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: I just wrote this wiki page: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#How_to_use_the_IRC_Application

Re: [SoaS] [IAEP] [Testing] I would like feedback on the ''How_to_use_the_IRC_Application'' wiki page

2011-12-13 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
was composed last night, after a request for such a guide on #sugar IRC Cordially Tom Gilliard satellit_ on #sugar (I was trained as a geological oceanographer, so my writing style may reflect this.) On 12/13/2011 02:20 PM, James Cameron wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 07:41:07AM -0800, Thomas C

[SoaS] New: Linked wiki pages with annotated screen-shots of Sugar

2011-12-08 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Take a look at these 3 new linked; annotated; screen-shot filled wiki pages: Sugar Creation Kit/sck/Introduction to Sugar Interface http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit/sck/Introduction_to_Sugar_Interface, Sugar Creation Kit/sck/Connecting to the Internet

Re: [SoaS] Custom build from git repository

2011-12-07 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Build_Your_Own_Remix_with_Fedora Would a remix do it? On 12/07/2011 04:03 AM, Raffael Reichelt wrote: Hello! I just tried to prepare a custom image of SOAS V6 from spins git repository. Unfortunately I could not find any other branches then master - already

Re: [SoaS] Thanks for your order at OSDisc.com!

2011-12-06 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
: (dd write to an .img file and use the .img to dd write copies on new USB-sticks) Cordially; Thomas Gilliard satellit_ on #sugar freenode IRC On 12/01/2011 09:28 AM, OSDisc.com sales dept wrote: Dear Thomas C Gilliard, Thank you for placing your order at OSDisc.com. We pride ourselves

[SoaS] Let liveusb-creator know how to write dd created USB.img files in the graphical program

2011-12-01 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
It would be great to have liveusb-creator know how to write dd created USB.img files in the graphical program, I am producing these files for sugarlabs as a way to mass-produce Sugar on a Stick:

[SoaS] Announcing 3 USB .img files of SoaS to write with dd

2011-11-30 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Here is a new Soas-v6-Pineapple .img file to use to dd write to a 2GB USB http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#dd_writable_2GB_USB_Soas-v6-Pineapple-USB_.img There is also

Re: [SoaS] [IAEP] Need Help With SoaS! (Including Mac) dd writable USB.img files

2011-11-24 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Do it from Terminal. Not image-writer-mac ! This is a 1 GB USB that was imaged with dd. Cordially Tom Gilliard ===Write to a 1 GB USB device=== sudo su Password dd if=SoaS-15-1-EFI.img of=/dev/sd(x) bs=2M 489+1 records in 489+1 records out 1026555904 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 216.577 s, 4.7

[SoaS] f16-SoaS_boot_USB_for_XO-1

2011-11-24 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
I just built a Persistent f16-SoaS-i686 USB that boots on a G1G1 XO-1; slow but works correctly. I have not successfully booted it on the XO-1.5 but I am still testing. see for details: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#f16-SoaS_boot_USB_for_XO-1 Tom Gilliard

Re: [SoaS] SoaS v7?

2011-11-10 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
This is an example of a dd writable SoaS-v2.img file which produces a fully functional Conventional install on a USB. This is equivalent to a liveinst install to USB.[1] It was first suggested by bernie [2] in early 2010 as a better alternative to the currently used live USB SoaS

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] MacBook_Persistent_SoaS_v5_and_SoaS_v6_EFI_Boot_USB ( boots directly from USB )

2011-11-02 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
On 11/02/2011 12:16 AM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi... I am following the progress of this with great interest, and as soon as I finish the work I promised to do on the Help Activity/Users Manual refresh, I will have a chance to try it. I do have a few questions that will help me get

[SoaS] MacBook_Persistent_SoaS_v5_and_SoaS_v6_EFI_Boot_USB ( boots directly from USB )

2011-11-01 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
We now have a persistent EFI boot USB for Macs... http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#MacBook_Persistent_SoaS_v5_and_SoaS_v6_EFI_Boot_USB works with f16 RC4 x86-64 Soas.iso

Re: [SoaS] SoaSv6 - Last stages

2011-10-28 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Boots:MacBook-Proi7 -EFI-Boot-USB hold option key on power up select -- EFI USB * Has Persistence *2 GB Firefly USB :formatted in f16 diskutility fat /dev/sdb fat /dev/sdb1 * (Built in f16 gnome3-shell 3.2.1 on Acer Aspire One N450) * terminal: Run yum install livecd-tools so it installs all

Re: [SoaS] SoaSv6 - Last stages

2011-10-27 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Unmounted: $ sudo livecd-iso-to-disk --format --efi Fedora-16-TC2-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1 is not a block device SYNTAX livecd-iso-to-disk [--help] [--noverify] [--format] [--msdos] [--reset-mbr] [--efi] [--skipcopy] [--force] [--xo]

Re: [SoaS] SoaSv6 - Last stages

2011-10-27 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Peter; That worked.(/dev/sdb) did both Fedora-16-TC-i686-Live-SoaS.iso Fedora-16-TC2-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso Only x86_64 USB had efi boot on My Macbook Pro i7 using Option key Booted to boot splash screen, but hung after pressing Entert. (Blue background and cursor in upper left corner) refit

Re: [SoaS] SoaSv6 - Last stages

2011-10-27 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
/27/2011 12:08 PM, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: On 10/27/2011 12:04 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: Peter; That worked.(/dev/sdb) did both Fedora-16-TC-i686-Live-SoaS.iso Fedora-16-TC2-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso Only x86_64

[SoaS] Fedora-16-TC1-i686-Live-SoaS.iso available now

2011-10-14 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/16.TC1/Live/i686/Fedora-16-TC1-i686-Live-SoaS.iso Fedora 16 Final Test Compose 1 (TC1) Available Now! http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test-announce/2011-October/000309.html Ongoing Testing

[SoaS] Announce: Soas_Coconut: tests, links, Soas_Coconuts.img plus an importable Virtual Appliance available.

2011-10-10 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Available now: 1-) http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#Soas-v5-Coconut Tests http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Soas_Coconuts.img use .img to dd write a 2 GB USB built with liveusb-creator in f16 with persistence file 2-)

Re: [SoaS] [Marketing] Sugar on a Stick v5 Coconut release

2011-10-09 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Peter Robinson wrote: Hi All, Sugar on a Stick v5 is ready to go (finally). The website will be updated shortly. When it is all details will be here http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/ Congratulations Will the surf-115.xo on ASLO get a revision for use with sugar 0.93-94.x? Thanks

Re: [SoaS] [Marketing] Sugar on a Stick v5 Coconut release

2011-10-09 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Peter Robinson wrote: On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: Peter Robinson wrote: Hi All, Sugar on a Stick v5 is ready to go (finally). The website will be updated shortly. When it is all details will be here http

[SoaS] Target USB needs to be removed from sugar when using liveinst to write to a 2GB USB

2011-08-30 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Discovered today: In sugar (soas f16 0825 nightly) [1] the USB needs to be removed from sugar (frame icon on bottom) then liveinst can use custom to delete the vfat from the USB and used to create a new ext4 / partition to do install to(There is no warning in liveinst that the USB is

Re: [SoaS] Target USB needs to be removed from sugar when using liveinst to write to a 2GB USB

2011-08-30 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Here is the entire description of a successful full install of Soas-v6 to a 2 GB USB http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#Install_to_2_GB_USB_HD: Tom Gilliard Thomas C Gilliard wrote: Discovered today: In sugar (soas f16 0825 nightly) [1] the USB needs

[SoaS] Fedora-16-Nightly-20110825.14-i686-Live-soas : use liveinst, [Configure network] to Set up wireless AP on installed USB before installing

2011-08-26 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Link: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#Fedora-16-Nightly-20110825.14-i686-Live-soas From Booted Live CD [1] Install to 8 GB USB HD: *seems to require reformat of USB HD* Otherwise get failure of Anaconda * Install gparted su yum install

Re: [SoaS] Fedora-16-Nightly-20110825.14-i686-Live-soas : use liveinst, [Configure network] to Set up wireless AP on installed USB before installing

2011-08-26 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Walter Bender wrote: On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: Link: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#Fedora-16-Nightly-20110825.14-i686-Live-soas From Booted Live CD [1] Install to 8 GB USB HD: seems to require

[SoaS] Fedora-16-Alpha-i686-Live-Desktop - install problems

2011-08-23 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Fedora-16-Alpha-i686-Live-Desktop [A]- install problems: I could not use the install to HD Icon in gnome3-shell to install to the usb HD [B] These all failed for me: 1-)use default settings 2-) use whole disk (no LVM) 3-) custom with / ext 4 1000 /23 and swap This finally worked: 4-)

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] Boot from usb Soas5 on virtualbox win7

2011-08-12 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
HARUN KARADOGAN wrote: Hi, I am trying to boot from usb on virtualbox win7. I followed the instructions http://www.pendrivelinux.com/boot-a-usb-flash-drive-in-virtualbox/; 1-)What version of linux are you trying to boot? Soas-v5 is not yet released. If you are using one of the

[SoaS] f15 Soas Remix with updates testing 07/27/2011

2011-07-27 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
f15 Soas Remix with updates testing 07/27/2011 http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#f15-soas-Remix-727 Tom Gilliard satellit ___ SoaS mailing list SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas

[SoaS] jabber is causing dbus errors in sugar 0.92.1 here is way to stop jabber connection and fix application did no start on first try.

2011-07-04 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Booted from SoaSv5-20110612-i686 [1] Sugar on a Stick 5 (Coconut) Fedora release 15 (Lovelock) 0.92.1 Jabber has 200 avitars.long delay getting the display (booted from Cd) Most applications require starting 2 times to run. Unfortunately network in CP will not start so I cannot erase the

Re: [SoaS] [IAEP] Sugar minimum set

2011-06-30 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
moku...@earthtreasury.org wrote: On Wed, June 29, 2011 2:29 pm, Valerie Taylor wrote: Is there a minimum set of Sugar teacher/tutor training, hardware and software that could be implemented by a community supported remedial program that works with kids outside regular elementary school? Is

Re: [SoaS] servers 404ing SOAS

2011-06-27 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
good reason, surely the old version should always be available? I am of course very grateful for the support that has filtered through and the vast work of the 'core(s)' on these project groups. Watching with interest. Roger. On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel

[SoaS] Fedora-16-Nightly-20110623.09-i686-Live-soas testing

2011-06-23 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#Fedora-16-Nightly-20110623.09-i686-Live-soas selinux=0 and setenforce=0 on boot required to boot liveinst fails Installs to USB correctly works thru firstboot; smolt. no gdm login; just blue bird with tree f15 screen background

Re: [SoaS] Fwd: Re: Tux Paint Kids Drawing Contest | OLPC | SugarLabs

2011-06-21 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Look at: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Trisquel_On_A_Sugar_Toast I just used a booted 2GB USB [1] of Trisquel 4.5.1-sugar to download Tux Paint 5.0 from ASLO. It works fine. Tux Paint 5.0 took about 2 minutes to download and one has to be patient as it downloads. I monitored the download

[SoaS] Fedora-16-Nightly-20110619.17-i686-Live-soas; testing

2011-06-19 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#Fedora-16-Nightly-20110619.17-i686-Live-soas Tom Gilliard satellit ___ SoaS mailing list SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas

Re: [SoaS] new SoaSv5 test image - Last change to test and fix issues

2011-06-17 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Thomas C Gilliard wrote: Thomas C Gilliard wrote: Testing 06/14/2011 -Trying to create a 2 GB .img file for dd writing to 2 GB USB's- SoaSv5-20110612-i686.iso - fresh download http://fedora.roving-it.com/SoaSv5-20110612-i686.iso *boot CD ACER ASPIRE ONE N450-(external usb DVD/CD writer

[SoaS] Announcing: trisquel-sugar_4.5.1_i686: dd_writable_2GB_USB_.img (an alternative sweets sugar 0.88.1 on a USB stick.)

2011-06-13 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Announcing an experimental 1.9Gb .img file for dd writing to a 2 GB USB Please Test Image of a Full Install to a 2 GB USB (ext4 file structure) Not a Live USB Persistent sweets sugar 0.88.1 Easy Duplication- about 10 minutes to write from the image. .img file is reusable for mass duplications;

[SoaS] Preliminary Tests of Fedora-16-Nightly-20110610.09-i686-Live-soas.iso

2011-06-11 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
==Fedora-16-Nightly-20110610.09-i686-Live-soas.iso== *SUMMARY: ;sugar 0.92.2 NEW Version of sugar up from 0.92.1 ;selinux=0 and setenforce=0 on safe boot required to boot ;even though Nic Is named eml in f16; NM waits for eth0 which does not exist ;Tests :Boot from CD :Note only boots this way:

Re: [SoaS] F15 install fails on Compaq Presario

2011-05-18 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
test Digest, Vol 87, Issue 76 Message: 9 Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 06:56:14 -0500 From: Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to Subject: Re: F15 install fails on Compaq Presario To: Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R c...@omen.com Cc: Fedora Test List fedora-test-l...@redhat.com Message-ID:

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] EToys-116 sugar-log output errors on soas RC3 liveinst to HD

2011-05-15 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Bert Freudenberg wrote: On 15.05.2011, at 19:25, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: Bert Freudenberg wrote: On 15.05.2011, at 18:39, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: Here is the Etoys 116 sugar-log output for soas rc3 installed to VirtualBox 4.0.4 OSX: Tom Gilliard satellit on #sugar

[SoaS] Sugar_on_a_Stick_v5_Coconut RC3 VirtualBox Appliance available for Downloading and testing

2011-05-15 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Link: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Emulator_image_files#Sugar_on_a_Stick_v5_Coconut Enjoy Tom Gilliard satellit Tested download/import just now works fine on my MacBook Pro i7 Please Help test. ___ SoaS mailing list SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] Secondary Menus

2011-05-10 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Peter Robinson wrote: Hi All, It seems in certain circumstances the second menus do work on Fedora 15 (thanks Thomas for testing). I suspect there was a new dep added to sugar for this feature that we're not actually depending on and its hence only getting installed in certain situations. Can

[SoaS] rpm -qa netinstall sugar-desktop to HD (submenus work)

2011-05-10 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
f15 TC1 Netinstall Booted CD to USB external HD done today (05/10/2011 Uses f15 i386 and f15 i386 updates testing repos Note Sub Menus on applications work here Tom Gilliard satellit libuser-python-0.57.2-1.fc15.i686 ql2100-firmware-1.19.38-4.fc15.noarch

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] Secondary Menus

2011-05-08 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
On 5/7/11 8:30 AM, Walter Bender wrote: On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Peter Robinsonpbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Walter Benderwalter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Peter Robinsonpbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, It seems in

Re: [SoaS] Getting Sugar ready for release

2011-05-06 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 16:09 -0700, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: See my report on using TC1 Netinstall to install sugar-desktop with gnome deselected: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#Fedora-15.TC1-i386-netinst.iso I also detail

[SoaS] Testing of TC1 Netinstall of sugar-desktop only (Gnome-desktop deselected)

2011-05-05 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Testing of TC1 Netinstall of sugar-desktop only (Gnome-desktop deselected) http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#Fedora-15.TC1-i386-netinst.iso Includes Testing of installed applications in f15 sugar-desktop and updates Note; 1-)The missing submenus problem is fixed

[SoaS] TEST: Fedora-15-Nightly-20110428.20-i686-Live-soas.iso

2011-04-29 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
===Fedora-15-Nightly-20110428.20-i686-Live-soas.iso=== *Reports: :http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#Fedora-15-Nightly-20110428.20-i686-Live-soas.iso *Link:

[SoaS] Fedora-15-Nightly-20110420.17-i686-Live-soas.iso testing results

2011-04-20 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
link: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#Fedora-15-Nightly-20110420.17-i686-Live-soas.iso also visit this page for older tests tested with live cd on external usb dvd/CD -ACER ASPIRE ONE N450 10 netbook ===Fedora-15-Nightly-20110420.17-i686-Live-soas.iso===

Re: [SoaS] SoaS fixes this week!!

2011-04-18 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 3:36 AM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: Preliminary testing: Acer and MacBook + activities http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#SoaSv5-20110415-i686 Looks Good : ) Tom Gilliard satellit Peter Robinson wrote: On Fri

Re: [SoaS] SoaS fixes this week!!

2011-04-17 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Raffael Reichelt wrote: Hello Peter! 2011/4/16 Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com Its unfortunately 64 bit so it won't work on the eeePC but should on the rest. For VMWare you'll need to make sure you configure a x86-64 VM. Confirmed it will not boot on my 9 EeePC900 with

[SoaS] SoaSv5-20110415-i686 Testing

2011-04-16 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Soas-v5 testing version with fixes by pbrobinson. [1] Wiki Page [2] This is actually: x86-64 (mislabeled) Boots CD with c on power up of MacBook Pro i7 Requires USB Mouse or Trackpad and wired network (No wireless) Installs to VirtualBox4.0.4 OSX Correctly with liveinst in root terminal Tested

Re: [SoaS] SoaS fixes this week!!

2011-04-15 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Preliminary testing: Acer and MacBook + activities http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#SoaSv5-20110415-i686 Looks Good : ) Tom Gilliard satellit Peter Robinson wrote: On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 15,

[SoaS] Fedora-15-Nightly-20110412.22-i686-Live-soas.iso TESTING

2011-04-13 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Testing: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#Fedora-15-Nightly-20110412.22-i686-Live-soas.iso Tom Gilliard satellit on #sugar freenode IRC ___ SoaS mailing list SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [SoaS] [IAEP] [realness] Re: S050 - Informática para Tontos / E050 - Computer Science for Dummies

2011-04-08 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Carlos Rabassa wrote: Frederick, I am not familiar with WIndows. I switched to Macintosh in 1993. Last May a few nice knowledgeable guys tried to put SoaS in my Mac but it wouldn´t work. They concluded SoaS was not yet ready for MacOS. Does SoaS work now in Macs? Has anyone tried it

Re: [SoaS] SoaS v5 status

2011-04-05 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Peter Robinson wrote: On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Sorry for a lot of the recent radio silence. In short I've been travelling a lot and work and my personal life took over pretty close to completely since FUDCon at the end of January

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SoaS v5 status

2011-04-05 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Peter: Marketing Meeting just ended: Take a look Tom Gilliard satellit http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings/2011-04-05T14:05:39 http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings/2011-04-05T14:05:39.html Peter Robinson wrote: On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Thomas C Gilliard

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SoaS v5 status

2011-04-05 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Peter: These are the major problems I see with sugar-desktop 0.92.0 installed to f15: yum install@sugar-desktop --skip-broken sugar-emulator http://serverbeach1.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/15-Beta.TC1/Live/i686/Fedora-15-Beta-i686-Live-Desktop.iso 1. Multiple pop-ups of keychain on

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SoaS v5 status

2011-04-05 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Rafael Ortiz wrote: On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: Peter: These are the major problems I see with sugar-desktop 0.92.0 installed to f15: yum install@sugar-desktop --skip-broken sugar-emulator http://serverbeach1.fedoraproject.org

[SoaS] Fedora_15_gnome3_with_sugar_0.92.0

2011-04-01 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
FYI New today: The f15 desktop live .iso [1] Boots from CD to gnome3 and installs to HD. sugar 0.92.0 can also be installed see method: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora#Fedora_15_gnome3_with_sugar_0.92.0 Tom Gilliard satellit on freenode #sugar IRC Download: [1]

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] Fedora_15_gnome3_with_sugar_0.92.0

2011-04-01 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
-shell: See: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora#Fedora-15-Beta-i686-Live-Desktop-Download Tom Gilliard Art Hunkins - Original Message - From: Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com To: SoaS soas@lists.sugarlabs.org Cc: Sugar Devel sugar-de

[SoaS] Someone needs to fix http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/test/ for new fedora listing style

2011-03-28 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Note: http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ points to http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/2011-03-27-nightly-spins.html which points to http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2952109 where

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] f15 gnome3 install to HD with sugar0.92.0 and how to edit menus with alacarte

2011-03-17 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
James Cameron wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 03:05:48PM -0700, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#f15_gnome3_with_sugar0.92.0 No such anchor in the page. The correct link is currently: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit

Re: [SoaS] f15 gnome3 install to HD with sugar0.92.0 and how to edit menus with alacarte

2011-03-14 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
at FUDCon getting it to a working state. Have you by chance tested any of the post alpha SoaS nightly builds? Peter On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#f15_gnome3_with_sugar0.92.0 It works fine

[SoaS] Today's Spins Sig Meeting Log FYI

2011-03-07 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2011-03-07/spins_sig_meeting.2011-03-07-20.08.log.html Possibly important Tom Gilliard satellit ___ SoaS mailing list SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas

Re: [SoaS] How to make things stick on the stick

2011-02-26 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Traver, Cherrice wrote: I find that when I use SoaS and install a new activity, it does not persist the next time I use it. Is there something special that needs to be done to have changes written to the flash drive? Or is this just a limitation of the SoaS approach? use liveusb-creator

[SoaS] Tests of applications on booted Trisquel 4.1 sugar installed to a 8Gb USB

2011-02-17 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
I attach a spreadsheet: Tests of applications on booted Trisquel 4.1 sugar installed to a 8Gb USB Test of Trisquel 4.1 sugar Applications.ods Tom Gilliard satellit on #sugar IRC freenode Test of Trisquel 4.1 sugar Applications.ods Description: application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet

Re: [SoaS] [IAEP] Updated ASLOxo.iso (DVD) available for Download

2011-02-08 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Entries in http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit for ASLO-4.iso are removed The Files are still on http://download.sugarlabs.org/images/ For a little longer Tom Gilliard Rafael Ortiz wrote: Hi Thomas, On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com

[SoaS] CD livecd-fedora-live-desktop-201101311532.iso Boots into F14 Gnome Desktop using the C key on MacBook Air and a Burned DVD

2011-02-01 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528232 Luke Macken mailto:lmac...@redhat.com 2011-01-31 18:08:44 EST I updated our patch to support the following models: iMac9,1 MacBookAir2,1 MacBookPro5,5 MacBookPro6,2 I also spun up an F14 x86_64 live image with this patch. Testing

Re: [SoaS] [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Local download page for 16 Sugar Related Floss Manual .pdf files

2011-01-21 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
, but if there is no way I can give you relief aid 2011/1/20 Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com I have uploaded 16.pdf files to: http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/floss_manuals/ Links have been added to: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Floss_Manuals I hope

[SoaS] Local download page for 16 Sugar Related Floss Manual .pdf files

2011-01-20 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
I have uploaded 16.pdf files to: http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/floss_manuals/ Links have been added to: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Floss_Manuals I hope that this is an appropriate thing to do. Having a local copy of the latest Manuals seemed like a good thing to

Re: [SoaS] SoaS 5 feature list

2010-12-29 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
I added this to the Soas_v-5 list: Implement feature: Revised_Browse_default-bookmarks proposed and approved for v-4 SoaS http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Revised_Browse_default-bookmarks.html We need to discuss on list what would included on the wiki page linked from the sugar-browse

Re: [SoaS] A heads up for the major changes that will appear in Fedora 15 / SoaS 5

2010-12-28 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Peter Robinson wrote: Hi All, I just thought I would give people a heads up for changes that I'm aware of that are going to be appearing in Fedora 15 / SoaS 5. The big one will be gnome3/gtk3 plus the associated changes that will come with the required pygtk / gobject-introspection (Tomeu

Re: [SoaS] Mango Lassi USB Boot issue

2010-12-16 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Use a fedora Virtual Appliance in Debian Lenny to create a persistent liveUSB: 1-) Download and installing loading virtualbox-3.2_3.2.12-68302~Debian~lenny_i386.deb (http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads)

Re: [SoaS] Announcement: New Virtualbox Appliances of Trisquel-3-sugar and Debian-squeeze-sugar available for download

2010-12-08 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
On 12/6/10 2:54 PM, James Cameron wrote: On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 02:30:49AM -0800, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: The new Virtualbox appliances have been uploaded to: http://download.sugarlabs.org/images/VirtualBox/ Suggestion: in the .txt files in that directory, wrap the text to about 80 columns

[SoaS] Announcement: New Virtualbox Appliances of Trisquel-3-sugar and Debian-squeeze-sugar available for download

2010-12-06 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
The new Virtualbox appliances have been uploaded to: http://download.sugarlabs.org/images/VirtualBox/ Current appliances are listed here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Emulator_image_files#Other_virtual_machines They were built on a MacBook Air with Oracle VM VirtualBox (3.2.10-r66523) then

[SoaS] Annoucement: Appliance of Sugar on a Stick v3-Mirabelle uploaded to: download.sugarlabs.org/images/VirtualBox/

2010-12-03 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
There is a new Virtualbox Appliance for downloading and importing into Virtualbox3.2 This should be OS and hardware agnostic. I have tested it on Ubuntu and a MacBook Air after downloading. Please test. Thanks; Tom Gilliard satellit on freenode #sugar IRC Link:

Re: [SoaS] [IAEP] the 4 GB USB containing Soas-v3-Mirabelle appliance can be run interchangeably on a PC or a mac with VMPlayer or Virtualbox

2010-11-27 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Raffael Reichelt wrote: 2010/11/25 Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com Raffael; I just built a f14-Desktop 2nd USB using the same method and it boots fine on the MacBook Air. I then did yum groupinstall sugar-desktop and then yum install sugar-emulator. (took 2 hrs because

[SoaS] workaround for soas-v4 f14 CP: Update until it is fixed.

2010-11-27 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
root sugar-terminal yum update sugar* Seems to update activities well: sugar 0.90.3 sugar-browse 120-1.fc14 sugar-physics 7.1.fc14 sugar-pippy 38.1.fc14 sugar-write 72-1.fc14 Tom Gilliard satellit ___ SoaS mailing list SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [SoaS] [IAEP] the 4 GB USB containing Soas-v3-Mirabelle appliance can be run interchangeably on a PC or a mac with VMPlayer or Virtualbox

2010-11-25 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Raffael Reichelt wrote: 2010/11/25 Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com Running Soas files on a 2nd USB in Virtualbox 3.2 installed on the MacBook Air : In VirtualBox Make a new Virtualbox appliance where you specify the existing vmdk file on the 2nd USB as the Hard Disk. NOTE

Re: [SoaS] [IAEP] the 4 GB USB containing Soas-v3-Mirabelle appliance can be run interchangeably on a PC or a mac with VMPlayer or Virtualbox

2010-11-25 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
. thanks for testing; Tom Gilliard Raffael Reichelt wrote: 2010/11/25 Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com Raffael Reichelt wrote: 2010/11/25 Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com satel...@bendbroadband.com Running Soas files on a 2nd USB in Virtualbox 3.2 installed

Re: [SoaS] [IAEP] [soas] the 4 GB USB containing Soas-v3-Mirabelle appliance can be run interchangeably on a PC or a mac with VMPlayer or Virtualbox

2010-11-24 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Running Soas files on a 2nd USB in Virtualbox 3.2 installed on the MacBook Air : In VirtualBox Make a new Virtualbox appliance where you specify the existing vmdk file on the 2nd USB as the Hard Disk. NOTE the same 4 GB USB; 2nd USB containing the students appliance files runs interchagably

Re: [SoaS] [IAEP] [soas] the 4 GB USB containing Soas-v3-Mirabelle appliance can be run interchangeably on a PC or a mac with VMPlayer or Virtualbox

2010-11-24 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
James Cameron wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 05:16:48PM -0800, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: I just discovered the great feature that the 4 GB USB containing Soas-v3-Mirabelle can be run interchangeably on a PC or a mac with either VMPlayer or Virtualbox. This is an install using

Re: [SoaS] [soas] [IAEP] Running_Soas_files_on_a_2nd_USB_in_Virtualbox_3.2_installed_on_the_MacBook_Air

2010-11-23 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
I have been experimenting with my MacBook Air with Virtualbox 3.2 installed. I have discovered a neat way to answer http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/598: Another suggestion: Put the individual Student's Virtual Machine Appliance on a their USB stick and open it from the Mac or Windoz machine

Re: [SoaS] SoaS 4 - Mango Lassi is out.

2010-11-22 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Gilliard satellit 2010/11/3 Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com Great News; Fedora-14-x86_64-Live-SoaS CD Boots fine on an Apple MacBook Air with an external hp-DVD/CD usb drive. Hold C and tap power button keep holding the C key down until the blue fedora boot screen

Re: [SoaS] [ASLO] [PUBLIC] IRC-8

2010-11-21 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
I just tested the IRC-8 from ASLO. (ACER Aspire One with 2 GB USB of F14-desktop ( sugar 0.90.1) with yum groupinstall sugar-desktop.) gdm booted to sugar and downloaded IRC-8 from ASLO Fixes work. I can /join a 2nd channel and change my IRC name and it shuts down and resumes with the same

[SoaS] IRC-7 on updated Soas-v3-mirabelle possible Bug?

2010-11-20 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Hello: alsroot said to contact you about the Control Panel Activity upgrade to IRC-7 I just did for Soas-v3-Mirabelle in Virtual box on a MacBook Air. IRC -7 works well as it starts in #sugar. I can talk/receive then I do a /join #sugar-meeting. and it talks I then shut down the activity. I

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SoaS 4 - Mango Lassi is out.

2010-11-18 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
on the bug report Anyway, it's great to see the new release, well done all involved. David Leeming Solomon Islands Rural Link -Original Message- From: 'Martin Dengler' [mailto:mar...@martindengler.com] Sent: Tuesday, 16 November 2010 9:47 p.m. To: David Leeming Cc: 'Art Hunkins'; 'Thomas C

[SoaS] AN IDEA, Live Portable USB Creating USB http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/842

2010-11-05 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Ticket #907 (new task) http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/842 AN IDEA A Live USB Creating USB for netbooks without a CD/DVD drive: Format a 8GB or 16Gb USB with 2 partitions. (gparted (Partition Manager) does this well) 4GB: /dev/sdb1 fat 16; Label=FEDORA; boot flag set 4GB or larger

Re: [SoaS] AN IDEA, Live Portable USB Creating USB http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/842

2010-11-05 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
OOps wrong link on Header sorry : / http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/907 is correct Thomas C Gilliard wrote: Ticket #907 (new task) http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/907 AN IDEA A Live USB Creating USB for netbooks without a CD/DVD drive: Format a 8GB or 16Gb USB with 2 partitions

Re: [SoaS] SoaS 4 - Mango Lassi is out.

2010-11-04 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
On 11/4/10 7:51 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: Peter Robinson wrote: Please when detailing technical issues strip off non relevant lists so we don't spam them. On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Raffael Reichelt

Re: [SoaS] SoaS 4 - Mango Lassi is out.

2010-11-03 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Great News; Fedora-14-x86_64-Live-SoaS CD Boots fine on an Apple MacBook Air with an external hp-DVD/CD usb drive. Hold C and tap power button keep holding the C key down until the blue fedora boot screen appears Select Boot (Basic Video)-second line boots to bar display Fedora 14;

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