thanks for the reply. More inline
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Peter Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:16 PM, DancesWithCars > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 3:08 AM, Peter Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 2:53 AM, DancesWithCars >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> This has probably been mentioned elsewhere, >>>> but is there a Sugar/ soas on Mac list? >>> >>> This list will cover it on most architectures but there is a lot of >>> difference in "Mac" so could you be a little more specific? We should >>> work just fine on most modern intel based Macs. >>> >> those that don't have Macs, >> newer macs in particular may >> not care to hear about all the >> stuff on different architectures. >> >> Also porting to a QuartzX11 based >> environment, which has it's own >> platform issues. > > SoaS in a complete solution including the OS so QuartzX11 has got > nothing to do with this. I think you are enquiring about running the > Sugar interface on MacOSX which is completely different to and > unrelated to running SoaS on the Mac hardware platform. > The QuartzX11 idea is for an emulator like metacity and jhbuild environments on fedora and Linux based OS platforms. Also a little like the Sugar and Gnome environment with the current XO1&1.5 ISO & firmware but able to run both at the same time (jhbuild & metacity like). >>>> (then it can be put to marketing list, >>>> when many people know it works ;-/ ) >>> >>> Why wouldn't it work? We normally put all announcements to the >>> marketing list although they've been some what quiet of late. >>> >> Maybe it's an image issue, in the public awareness sense, >> maybe Sugar isn't publicized as working on Mac platform outside >> of virtualization? > > It doesn't work on OSX. > But wouldn't it be nice if it did? ;-) >> But the interface is similar ease of use, >> the Apple heritage of educational use >> (noted > > Yes but a kettle and a toaster are of a kitchen heritage and of use > for making breakfast but you don't class them as the same. > Both used for cooking & heating... Yes, different appliances. >> FWIW, I'm rather old school Mac >> (old world Beige G3 Macs 6 Gig HD, >> PowerBook 180, LC etc, >> which might be the class machine that >> is around $100 used :-) >> if not technically considered Antiques, >> as cars are defined by decades, >> computers are like dog years, >> much quicker, IMO. > > Sugar would work on PPC platforms. Fedora 12 is the last version of > Fedora that had PPC as a supported primary platform. Sugar will quite > happily work on PPC without issue, in terms of supported platforms its > not currently an aim of SoaS due to limited resources to work on it > but it shouldn't be hard for someone to do. > Thanks, didn't know about the PPC support End Of Life support issues... >> instead of new MacBookPros in the $1k range, >> Airs and iPad Tablets slightly under that, > > So look at netbooks, you can get them a lot cheaper than the 1K range > and they will easily work on SoaS. > Still waiting on XO 1.5 to be available to the common man/ woman/ child, and not just betas and in units of 100's ... HINT, HINT: G1G1 XO 1.5... It's that time of year, and all the people I talk with ask how to get them and I have to say, don't know... It's been years and my original G1G1 is mobo dead, so how do the original donors get newer and more hardware??? >> and back in the day Apple II, Fat Mac >> and MacIvory, most of which are pre USB... >> so forget memory sticks, and CDROM/ >> CDR reading for that matter, maybe stuff >> it in on parallel/ serial or put on drive >> before reinstall HD and see what python >> might/ could work.. > > I doubt it will work on those. > Yeah, a bit retrocomputing, [but LispM are still running too...] > Regards, > Peter > >>> >>>> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 5:48 PM, David Leeming >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> I tried with two identical flashdrives, same process. With one it boots >>>>> uninterrupted now. The second one needs the shift-prompt-linux0 routine. >>>>> Don't ask me why. I will post up to that effect on the bug report >>>>> >>>>> Anyway, it's great to see the new release, well done all involved. >>>>> >>>>> David Leeming >>>>> Solomon Islands Rural Link >>>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: 'Martin Dengler' [mailto:[email protected]] >>>>> Sent: Tuesday, 16 November 2010 9:47 p.m. >>>>> To: David Leeming >>>>> Cc: 'Art Hunkins'; 'Thomas C Gilliard'; 'Development of live Sugar >>>>> distributions' >>>>> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] SoaS 4 - Mango Lassi is out. >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 08:33:16PM +1000, David Leeming wrote: >>>>>> Martin thanks, >>>>>> >>>>>> Pressing shift at boot time was the missing info that I needed. It >>>>>> works OK. >>>>> >>>>> So now it boots?! Interesting. If you have time I'm sure people on that >>>>> bug report would love to know any/all messages you see that appear >>>>> suspicious. Good to know it at least lets you boot, now. >>>>> >>>>>> David Leeming >>>>>> Solomon Islands Rural Link >>>>> >>>>> Martin >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> SoaS mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> DancesWithCars >>>> leave the wolves behind ;-) >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> SoaS mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> SoaS mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> DancesWithCars >> leave the wolves behind ;-) >> _______________________________________________ >> SoaS mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas >> > _______________________________________________ > SoaS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas > -- DancesWithCars leave the wolves behind ;-) _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
