Sdz and others... We should put having a Stick work on both XOs and nonXOs on a roadmap, feature wish list somewhere please. I have to admit I'm getting pretty lost about where to put this sort of thing, especially since it crosses so many boundaries.
A good example of where it would be useful is the UK deployment. They are getting about 40 XOs and they already have a computer lab of PCs. Thanks! On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:26 PM, David Farning <dfarn...@sugarlabs.org>wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Ton van Overbeek<tvoverb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Caroline > > Meeks<carol...@solutiongrove.com> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> I'm curious if we are to the point technically where an XO lending > library > >> could create a stick for an XO borrower and lend them the XO. The > borrower > >> could then use Sugar and he XO on the stick. If they liked using Sugar > they > >> could keep the stick with all their work and continue using it on their > home > >> computer after they returned the XO. > >> Seems > >> > like a cool idea, but I haven't been following the technical issues around > SoaS on the XO enough to know if its technically feasible? > >> Thanks, > >> Caroline > >> > > > > Would be nice, if it works. > > > > I have not tried it with the recent releases of SoaS (>= Strawberry), > > but pre Strawberry it did not work. > > The main problem is that the underlying live-cd code assumes it is > > always running on the same computer. > > On first boot it does some specific adaptations for the XO-1 (i.e. > > change xorg.conf) which make it not work > > when booted later on a non-XO. > > Same thing the other way around, when first booted on a 'normal' pc it > > will not work on the XO-1. > > Again, all this was my experience with pre Strawberry versions of SoaS. > > If this is working now, then please correct me. > > > > Anyway, if it is not fixed yet, then this is one of the things SoaS > > has to address sooner than later > > in order to live up to all the publicity that you can take your work > > with you and boot it on any > > (Intel) computer. > > > > Hope I am being too pessimistic .... > > I would use the term realistic rather than pessimistic to describe your > post.... > > With that said, many of the issues that you refer to are underlying > distro issues rather SoaS or Sugar Issues. I would encourage you to > file bug reports with your favourite disto so their developers are > aware of these problems. > > FWIW, SoaS is taking 'live CD' images _far_ past their originally > envisioned purposes. The distros are seeing the value in running > their distro straight from a usb stick. Thus, the development rate at > the os level is starting to pick up dramatically. > > david > > > Ton van Overbeek > > _______________________________________________ > > Sugar-devel mailing list > > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > > -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax
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