On Fri, 2015-03-20 at 11:49 +1100, James Cameron wrote: > On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:25:55PM +0000, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: > > Thank you for taking the time to make a thoughtful contribution. > > Perhaps you will forgive me if I brainstorm this a bit. > > Yep, no worries. Interesting, but you went off into areas I didn't > have any comment on. > > I do have a comment on the accessibility of Sugar for new users ...... > > Because of this complexity you are trying to solve, bootable USB > drives are more trouble than they are worth. Bootable media is more > of a purists approach for reasons of Sugar performance, and ease of > production by developers. > > A different approach would be to provide a virtual machine _and_ > virtualisation software _and_ all the necessary configuration files so > that the user is not exposed to the virtualisation.
I agree this would be ideal for a committed potential user, and I would love to see it. However, (and I believe I am more of an old git than a purist) the CD => USB stick has some human merits. Many people can afford the time to have-a-go at downloading a CD. You can give it to people, to use or demo. If you like it, zap-it-to-a-stick, has attractions, *if* a 3 minute video might cover it. Giving a child a physical stick is nice. Constructionist. Regards Iain > > Then it would be one big download in .exe format for Windows, and .dmg > format for Mac OS X. The user would click on it and it would show > them Sugar after a short delay. > > I know Thomas Gilliard has worked on some of the components of this, > in particular manually prepared virtual machine images, but it would > need to be a complete packaged solution, not a series of complex > fragments as it is now. > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel