Install to hard drive or netbook SSD is certainly on my wish list... as a part of the break-install-barrier solution of testing/trying with Sugar on a Stick, then assuring better reliability, performance, etc.
That said, we're not there yet and I don't see it as a priority in the goal of getting teachers to hear about Sugar and try it. Although the option will be useful, the message will be muddled - we have been and will be promoting Sugar on a Stick as risk-free - not touching the hard disk and presenting no danger to currently installed OS and data - as well as providing a portable environment for use on more than one computer (e.g. school & home). An install will likely have a name other than Sugar on a Stick (while keeping the ice cream analogy), but that's a marketing issue, I think we can cross that bridge when we get to it. Sean On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Martin Dengler <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 02:33:15PM -0700, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: >> >> >> Martin Dengler wrote: >>> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 01:55:46PM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote: >>> >>>> Hi... >>>> >>>> OK, let's be playful for a minute... how about "Sugar Pies" (Live >>>> CDs) and Sugar Wafers (SD cards) for starters? You could have >>>> "Strawberry Pie" and "Blueberry Wafers" etc! >>>> >>> >>> Ok, though "Sugar Pie" makes me think of "cow pie"...but the problem >>> is that we're not going to have different images for SD cards vs. USB >>> sticks, so I guess - although the names are amusing :) - I still don't >>> see a good umbrella term to explain what we're trying to limit this >>> list to. Only the terrible "Sugar-centric distribution" seems to >>> capture what people think this list should be for[1]. >>> >>> >> Why not "Portable Sugar-Desktop" > > ...because some have called for an "install to hard drive" option, at > which point what's installed to hard drive is hard to call "live" or > "portable". > > Is a HD install of a SoaS-Strawberry USB image "SoaS"? Is it a > "Portable Sugar-Desktop"? If not, what is it? > > >> Other distributions have called it: >> >> * openSUSE-Sugar-Live (dd to USB/SD) >> * openSUSE-Edu-live-Li-f-e (Server) with Sugar( dd to 8GB USB/SD) >> * F11-Live-Edu (sh script) >> * Trisquel-Edu (Live USB) >> * Trisquel-Sugar (Announced today) >> * F12(rawhide)education i386xxxxx (dd to USB/SD) >> * Sugar Tree "Strawberry Soas" Jabber:ss.sugaronastick.com > > Cool list, thanks. It'd be cool if you could add it to mel's wiki page > (which I can't find right now, sorry :( ). > >>>> Caryl >>>> >>> >>> Martin >> >> Tom Gilliard > > Martin > > > _______________________________________________ > SoaS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas > > _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
