FWIW, Sugar had been up and running on RHEL already a few years back by Sebastian Dziallas. It is a matter of whether or not someone would be willing to maintain it.
regards. -walter On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Tom Mitchell <mi...@niftyegg.com> wrote: > More precisely CentOS tracks RHEL (Redhat enterprise linux). > Fedora is experemental in that features found to be stable in Fedora can be > gated into RHEL. Another aspect is hardware. For OLPC Fedora or Ubuntu > is most likely to have hardware support. Politics appears to open up more > hardware on Ubuntu .... (WiFi, Gfx). Centos with alternates should get > there with some assembly required. > > On Jul 28, 2013 3:43 PM, "David Farning" <dfarn...@activitycentral.com> > wrote: >> >> We are mixing our channels abit here. >> >> A Sugar based desktop on CentOS is pretty unlikely. As Peter noticed, >> there are many dependencies necessary for a recent Sugar which are not >> present in CentOS. CentOS intentionally lagges fedora by several >> releases for stability. If someone wanted to do it badly enough, it >> would be possible to backport the fedora 18 GTK stack to CentSO >> >> A school server based on CentOS or Ubuntu LTS is more likely. The >> challenge is remaining compatible with XOs. For hardware >> compatibility, a XO requires recent OLPC-OS versions which are based >> on recent fedora version. >> >> The step necessary to make XSCE on CentOS run on _Commodity_X86_ >> hardware are not that great. The problem is that it would require >> maintain a non-XO branch in parallel with the XO compatible branch.. >> Anyone have the time, energy, and flame retardant skin to tackle that? >> :) >> >> On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Thomas Gilliard <satelli...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > I am having install problems using the i386 6.4 Centos Live Cd/DVD's. >> > Has >> > anyone had kernel panics after install finishes and when rebooting? >> > i7 Laptop with install on USB HD (USB3) >> > ------- >> > would like to do Both if it is possible. >> > >> > But first I would like to setup a USB external HD with centos and >> > install a >> > schoolserver on it. As a test system. >> > This could be booted on my system76 i7 laptop (gazelle) using a wired >> > and >> > wireless connection. >> > >> > I have a working install of os885 (11.3.1) on the XO-1.5 Adam lent me >> > for >> > testing. >> > >> > Getting a current Sugar-Desktop (Dextrose?) to run on centos would be >> > great. >> > The long term stability of centos is very attractive. >> > >> > Please contact Peter robinson about the possibilities. He did an initial >> > try >> > as sugar 0.88.1 on Centos as referenced below. But found that it had too >> > many missing dependencies. >> > >> > Cordially >> > >> > Tom Gilliard >> > Bellingham WA. >> > #satellit_e on #schoolserver freenode IRC >> > >> > On 07/26/2013 06:09 PM, George Hunt wrote: >> > >> > If this is referring to whether XSCE will run on centos, that's a >> > different >> > question that whether sugar-destop will run on centos. >> > >> > But maybe I'm responding with insufficient information about the >> > question. >> > >> > George >> > >> > >> > On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: >> >> >> >> Jerry, >> >> Can you help at all here? >> >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Thomas Gilliard <satelli...@gmail.com> >> >> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Adam; >> >>> >> >>> Peter Robinson (usually on #fedora-arm) asked me in a PM IRC session >> >>> today to have you contact him: >> >>> >> >>> <satellit_e> has anything newer been done on centos sugar-desktop? >> >>> >> >>> http://pkgs.org/centos-6-rhel-6/epel-i386/sugar-0.88.1-1.el6.noarch.rpm.html >> >>> <pbrobinson> no, we tried it but the dependencies are too old >> >>> <pbrobinson> so it was decided it was more pain than it was worth >> >>> <satellit_e> ok that was what I just found....: ) >> >>> <pbrobinson> yes, I think 0.88 would likely work and it's likely from >> >>> our >> >>> attempt but 0.88 is ancient so we should likely just kill it >> >>> <satellit_e> I like the long time stability of centos ....too bad >> >>> <pbrobinson> It has it's uses but unfortunately because sugar is >> >>> moving >> >>> quite fast "long term stability" and "needed and wanted features" tend >> >>> to be >> >>> mutually exclusive. RHEL-7 (and hence likely Cent-OS 7) will likely be >> >>> close >> >>> to supporting what we need for Sugar 1.0 so that might suffice.... but >> >>> then >> >>> I said that with RHEL-6 too >> >>> <satellit_e> I have been playing with schoolserver DX3 and Adam wanted >> >>> to >> >>> know if centos might be used but Way over my head I fear >> >>> <pbrobinson> ask adam to email me >> >>> <satellit_e> ok >> >>> <pbrobinson> if he wants that discussion >> >>> <pbrobinson> presumably DX3 is dextrose? >> >>> <satellit_e> yes >> >>> <satellit_e> olpc.... >> >>> <pbrobinson> OK, is it currently fedora based? >> >>> <pbrobinson> (I've never used Dextrose) >> >>> <satellit_e> I have tested it in Ubuntu and on my XO-1.5 and as a vdi >> >>> in >> >>> VirtualBox >> >>> <pbrobinson> not sure what that means >> >>> <satellit_e> >> >>> >> >>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Ubuntu#Ubuntu_12.04.2_LTS_-_Dextrose_Sugar_Live >> >>> <pbrobinson> no, what I mean is the dextrose distro derived from >> >>> Fedora >> >>> or something else >> >>> <pbrobinson> not what platforms you ran it on >> >>> <satellit_e> looks like fedora >> >>> <pbrobinson> OK >> >>> <satellit_e> basically for XO-1.5 1.75 >> >>> <pbrobinson> if he's really interested in an educated answer tell him >> >>> to >> >>> ping me an email >> >>> >> >>> <satellit_e> https://sugardextrose.org/projects/dextrose/wiki/Wiki >> >>> <satellit_e> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition >> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ http://unleashkids.org ! >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Server-devel mailing list >> > Server-devel@lists.laptop.org >> > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> David Farning >> Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com >> _______________________________________________ >> Server-devel mailing list >> Server-devel@lists.laptop.org >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > Server-devel mailing list > Server-devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
