Rubén, this is great news and very exciting. I look forward to checking out your work!
thanks Sean 2009/10/1 Rubén Rodríguez Pérez <[email protected]>: >> > I have no illusions about the difficulty of jumpstarting an >> > ecosystem, but since that is necessary to the success of Sugar, we >> > need to make it happen. I have ideas for plans for that too >> > [...other ideas for plans] >> >> That's all great but it boils down to what I said: we can't do it now, >> where "we" is Sugar Labs and "it" is: create better distro than >> Fedora-ish and service that distro with distro-vendor-quality support >> and infrastructure. >> >> So I propose we come up with some way to do it (ibid.) to propose to >> SLOB or we get real should say we're not going to do it (for now). >> Either is better than the status quo of not doing it and pretend that >> we are > > I'm still a newbie here, but let me propose an idea. Feel free to > discard it if it's inappropriate. > > In the project Trisquel we've just made our own -still unnamed as a > project- version of a "distro for Sugar", and it has all the features > you were talking about in the last days, including a disk installer, > live cd with persistence, live usb with persistence, live usb graphical > creator, Sugar style artwork, LTSP support, unattended installation... > Coming soon we will have unattended distributed installation using pxe. > > We are going to maintain this project no matter if it is used by SL or > not. And as an important feature, Trisquel is fully libre and endorsed > by the FSF. We are open -and looking forward- to collaboration with SL. > > We don't want to compete with other projects like SoaS -we will not use > that name either-, in fact I'd like to thank the SoaS authors, as I'm > sure their work made it easier for us to make our version. > > My only intention with this message is for you to know our alternative. > We are distro hackers -I don't like the "vendors" moniker-, so we have > the skills and resources required, allowing you to focus on the Sugar > development. Now that the initial tasks of our project are done, the > maintenance will be easy. In fact, we will start publishing nightly > builds with the latest Trisquel updates and the latest version of the > Sugar components. We hope it will be a tool for developers and testers. > > You can find more info here: http://trisquel.info/en/trisquel-sugar > > Rubén > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
