On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Mikus Grinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Applications which I intend to use in the near future I keep > "resident" (Sugar Activities in /home/olpc/Activities, Linux > applications on my "permanent" SD card). Those I access rarely I > keep on a removable storage device. > > Just now was using Journal to access Activity bundles kept on a > removable storage device. All I wanted to do was to run them once > -- but Journal *installed* (in /home/olpc/Activities) each one that > I clicked on. I had not expected that. > > > The XO-1 does not have a lot of nand "storage". What interests me > is how best to "off-load" data *and programs* from nand. I had been > told that it was possible to run Activities from a removable storage > device -- but I now see that in the actual implementation it *still* > requires nand to run an "off-loaded" Activity -- in other words, the > removable storage device is just an "adjunct", not a "repository". > > There really ought to be a better way to "deposit" Activities which > are not being accessed each week. Sooner rather than later, there > simply will not be room in /home/olpc/Activities.
You raise interesting points. The reason why there isn't better support for removable devices is that the current resources didn't allowed for more work to go in there. I think Scott has plans to make possible run activities without unpacking them anywhere, so I expect that would serve for your plans of offloading activities to removable storage. HTH, Tomeu _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
