On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Peter Robinson <[email protected]>wrote:
> Thank you Martin. I think that is spot on! > > >> We've been a distro distributor for months - from the before the > >> beta-1 Sugar on a Stick announcement. > > > > Who's we? sugaronastick.com? Sugar Labs members? Let's be clear: > > Sugar Labs does not have the staff to compete with Canonical or Fedora > > as a distro vendor. So please help me understand to what "distro > > distributor" tasks you think the DP should propose to SLOB. > > It would be interesting to see how many people are using SoaS over > something like the installable options from the distros such as the > sugar desktop group option in Fedora. This obv wouldn't include the > XO-1s. Of the 5 devices I have that have sugar installed. 2 are the > 802 XO release, and 3 are Fedora (although one of those will go to > SoaS for some testing eventually). > I use SoaS for activity development and jhbuild for Sugar development. I have used SoaS ever since OLPC stopped making their distribution. I recommend SoaS VMs to people who ask me about the activity team. I see it as smaller, cleaner and more stable than a big distro with Sugar tacked on. Anyway, why are we talking about the effort to maintain a distro? SoaS obviously benefits from all of Fedora's work - just look how quickly it's moved from f10 to f11 to f12. It's just a tweaked .ks file and a brand name. >> And, we are marketing it with success (cf. worldwide tech press > >> coverage, the BBC, etc). > > > > How many people are using it? Satisfied with SoaS as a distro? > > What's the target deployment size, and what SL support will be > > required? > I see emails from the GPA deployment going by all the time. Are there any deployments using Sugar on a standard distro? Are there often mainstream media articles announcing "package foo available in latest fedora"? To me, SoaS has always been the answer to the question "how do I run Sugar now that OLPC isn't providing OS builds?". It works well, it's actively developed, it brings in good press, so why are people questioning its value? -Wade
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