On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:33 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Walter, > > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Walter Bender <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I've been doing some work on the Get Sugar landing page in the wiki, >> which has been the source of some confusion amongst our potential user >> community. My proposed modifications (See >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Walter/Get_Sugar) are an attempt to >> streamline and consolidate the instructions for first-time users. >> Feedback and testing requested. > > Some feedback.... > > For the Mac side of things I think we would be better dealing with it > from a direct boot option and then having a separate virtualisation > option as in terms of GUI say VirtualBox is the same across all > platforms.
Do we have a robust direct boot option? I thought that was still causing more headaches than it was worth (from the support perspective). I agree that we should note that the VM solution works on all platforms, not just the Mac. > > Also I'd like to note that its been discussed in the past about doing > images for particular virtualisation platforms and the reason we've > shied away from that is because all virtualisation platforms support > booting of .iso files and its then easy to do an install from there. > By doing this it allows us to ship and QA a single image and support > it on both physical and virtual platforms. If we support VIrtualBox we > should probably also support VMWare, Hyper-V, KVM and Xen. Who's going > to do all that testing when we have barely the resources to do a > single image. It seems that Tom has been testing Virtual Box. If other VMs have testers, we can add those to the list. > > Peter > _______________________________________________ > Marketing mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing > Thanks. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
