On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 03:05:51AM -0400, Bill Bogstad wrote: > [I'm tagging this note as a Decision Panel message since I think it's > relevant to why I think Sugar Labs should at > a minimum do its own Linux distribution variant. If SL is going to > promote Sugar to the masses via a live USB images > we need to be in a position to work directly on the kinds of > problems/issues that I discuss below.]
I agree we should discuss and the bottom line you're asking for SL to do a ton of work. Work that you claim Fedora and every other Linux distributor has not done. I don't think that's a viable position to have SL take. > I'm thinking about getting the broken/inconsistent PC hardware > platform to actually work. > [lots of variants on this theme] You think SL will be able to succeed here where every other distro vendor has not? I don't think it's possible nor do I think it's necessary. > I have a donated lapop that won't boot from a USB stick and can't > use the current Strawberry CD boot helper. It will boot from some > Linux boot CDs just not from the Strawberrry ISO. I'm pretty sure > that this is because BIOS only supports 'floppy emulation' booting > and the modern way to make a bootable Linux CD is to use isolinux > with no emulation mode. My reading of the syslinux/isolinux > site/mailing list is that this was (and may still be) a limitation > in BIOS. If Windows doesn't use a feature of a standard then it > probably doesn't work in half the machines which are first shipped > to that standard. OTOH, any machine that supports the 'no > emulation' booting probably does the full standard. So again, SL is going to solve this problem? And solving this problem is core to SL's mission? > > The same hardware drivers are installed at install time for a "live" > > install as for a non-live, subject to the "live" image creator's whim. > > For example, check the SoaS package list at > > http://people.sugarlabs.org/~mtd - 43 xorg-x11-drv rpms for hardware > > That url gives me a blank page. Whoops - I meant http://people.sugarlabs.org/~mtd/soas-xo1/soas70xo.tree.packages.txt > Bill Bogstad Martin
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