On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Peter Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> I'm trying to point out that SL had better have an idea of what it >>>>>> wants out of SoaS if it wants to invest time in it. So far it seems >>>>>> like SL wants to put in (great) marketing and get out a linux distro >>>>>> that beats Fedora in hardware and community support. >>>>> >>>>> I don't understand this point, which seems to be the crux of the issue... >>>>> SoaS *is* Fedora. Are there any circumstances where Fedora would work >>>>> better than SoaS on target hardware? >>>> >>>> Further, the work we have been doing at GPA and with other SoaS >>>> efforts has provided feedback from real-world situations that will >>>> hopefully impact (in a positive way) the efforts at Fedora, Suse, >>>> Trisquel and others. It is not so much the size of the deployment as >>>> how much we learn from it that matters. >>> >>> How is that being fed back upstream to Fedora and the other distros. I >>> must admit due to lack of time I've been mostly ignoring the GPA >>> emails but I do have other feedback loops and I've not heard how these >>> 'real-world situations' are improving Fedora. Is there a concise wiki >>> page I can reference to ensure I can assist in getting these suggested >>> improvements upstream. >>> >>> Peter >>> >> >> I cannot say for sure that Fedora's Live USB efforts are being >> influenced by our feedback. Most feedback is getting back to Fedora >> through Sebastian. Alas, there is not a concise wiki page and there is >> still a lot of noise in the feedback--something we are working to >> improve. But what we do have is about 50 kids and teachers using >> SoaS--mostly with few problems--which is pretty good news. > > I was desperate to use the latest sugar via strawberry for the 50 XO > pilot we're doing in London but unfortunately I couldn't make it > stable enough (with mtd's help) for a deployment so in the end had to > go with the XO 802 release. Which is pretty bad news! I'm hoping that > will change for the second phase of the pilot.
Is there a description of the problems you encountered with Strawberry kicking around anywhere? regards. -walter > On the other hand I've been working very closely with Sebastian and > the two of us with both be present at FUDCon Toronto in December. > > Peter > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
