On 16 September 2010 09:00, Tabitha Roder <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. >> >> Peter >> >> > I am a teacher of sorts and have been into loads of education institutes > from pre school through to tertiary. Apple is everywhere so we have to solve > this problem. > Apple designs vertically integrated systems. If schools & teachers decide to adopt this philosophy, they take the risk that they can't use external stuff. I don't know if Sugar Labs have the capacity to remedy this. I think that Sugar Labs should focus on making quality software, and push responsibility for adoption downstream to distributions and companies/orgs that want to promote Sugar's adoption. I'm sorry for my lack of sympathy, but I don't see Sugar running natively on a Mac platform as a priority for Sugar Labs. It's a priority, but we have many priorities and few resources. > I use Virtualbox and have a geek master to turn to for help when I need it. > I have not heard of those other virtual machine things and all the teachers > I know that have tried a virtual machine have done so with Virtualbox or > something called bootcamp (which might not even be a virtual machine, who > knows?) You're right there, Boot Camp[1] is not virtualisation. It is more like an installer to make things easier for people to install a second operating system. It assists people with repartitioning their hard drives and so forth. I think that Boot Camp is a good route to investigate if someone has the energy. Perhaps some intrepid Mac users could adapt current tutorials[3] for Sugar. Tim [1] http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BootCamp [2] http://www.helium.com/items/421906-how-to-install-linux-on-an-intel-mac-with-boot-camp [note: marketing list removed from discussion]
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