On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 20:05, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Caroline Meeks < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:42 PM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: >> >>> *Clinic next door to a School* - A health clinic located right next door >>> Sasha's school has a close partnership with the school. Many students are >>> scene there so they decided to add a donated computer to their waiting room >>> just for kids to use Sugar. This computer still has its hard-drive, but its >>> dedicated for Sugar. Some of the basic sugar files are located on the hard >>> drive and it is set up to allow students to log out rather then shutting >>> down and restarting between each student. >>> >>> This is an very interesting idea. A hybrid harddrive usb solutions. From >>> a technology perspective it would not be that hard to implement. When the >>> computer boots from the hard drive it waits at a login prompt for the user >>> to either login or insert a USB with the users /home directory. The current >>> generation of linux distribution has excellent support for DBUS to >>> communicate the status of hot swapped devices such as USBs. >>> >> Great idea. We can also make the USB stick (assuming it has enough storage) bootable, allowing for use wherever. > *The Zoo*: .... >>> >>> This seems very similar to the clinic. >> >> >> Interestingly when I discussed this with Marco the Zoo is hard use case. >> Everywhere else we can assume the kids are all attending the same school >> district, thus we can assume they are all running the same version of >> Sugar. For the Zoo we might have kids from different towns all coming with >> Sugar USBs but different versions. This might be harder to support. >> > Well, assuming that the host has a few gigs of harddrive space, we can suggest that the Zoo keeps muliple sugar versions (say... a copy of each one that was backwards/forwards incompatable, a list we'd provide). -lf
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