On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 6:34 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 01:51, Bill Bogstad wrote:
>
> Could be, perhaps we should hear first about real world scenarios on
> which this could be useful? Maybe on a school with computer labs all
> with the same Sugar version?
>From discussio
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 01:51, Bill Bogstad wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:17, Elena of Valhalla
>> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Jim Simmons wrote:
[...] Fedora 11
with the included Sugar environment, [...]
>>
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 04:17, Elena of Valhalla
wrote:
>
> I wonder how hard would it be to configure such fedora to look for an
> USB key with SoaS on it and mount its home partition at login time:
> this would help keeping some of the advantages of SoaS (the ability to
> work from any computer
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:17, Elena of Valhalla
> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Jim Simmons wrote:
>>> [...] Fedora 11
>>> with the included Sugar environment, [...]
>>> This does not give the child all the advantages of SoaS,
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Elena of Valhalla
wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote:
>> My wish is to figure out ways that SoaS can take advantage of the hard
>> drive while still remaining a portable environment. Hmm... Hey, here
>> is a potentially useful 'hack'.
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote:
> My wish is to figure out ways that SoaS can take advantage of the hard
> drive while still remaining a portable environment. Hmm... Hey, here
> is a potentially useful 'hack'. Have SoaS detect the presence of a
> hard drive at boot time, lo
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:17, Elena of Valhalla
wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Jim Simmons wrote:
>> [...] Fedora 11
>> with the included Sugar environment, [...]
>> This does not give the child all the advantages of SoaS, but it's
>> probably far from useless.
>
> I wonder how hard w
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Jim Simmons wrote:
> [...] Fedora 11
> with the included Sugar environment, [...]
> This does not give the child all the advantages of SoaS, but it's
> probably far from useless.
I wonder how hard would it be to configure such fedora to look for an
USB key with So
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Bill Bogstad wrote:
> As for swap, if you are repurposing discarded machines on any kind of
> scale you are going to end up with non-functional machines which are a
> great source of parts. Strip the RAM from the dead machines and
> upgrade the rest. This is som
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Douglas McClendon
wrote:
> Bill Bogstad wrote:
>> [swapping on hard disk with SoaS
>>
>> Anybody want to code/script this up?
>
> does /etc/rc.d/init.d/livesys (search for swapon) in f11/soas not already do
> just that?
I just checked both F11 Live and SoaS Live I
Bill Bogstad wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Jim Simmons wrote:
>> Art,
>>
>> Being a frugal person I do all my home computing on legacy machines
>> like the ones you've tested with. As far as SoaS is concerned, I
>> agree with your conclusions. I got better results than you did with
Art,
Sugar on the XO does not have a swap partition because swapping to
disk would quickly wear out the solid state drive. You'd have the
same problem on a thumb drive, plus swapping to a drive connected to a
USB 1.0 port would not be fast. Now the other idea of checking to see
if the computer h
I
imagine if feasible it would already have been implemented.)
Art Hunkins
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On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Jim Simmons wrote:
> Art,
>
> Being a frugal person I do all my home computing on legacy machines
> like the ones you've tested with. As far as SoaS is concerned, I
> agree with your conclusions. I got better results than you did with
> my Pentium III because I'
Art,
Being a frugal person I do all my home computing on legacy machines
like the ones you've tested with. As far as SoaS is concerned, I
agree with your conclusions. I got better results than you did with
my Pentium III because I've installed a USB 2.0 expansion card on it.
I haven't tried a Pe
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