Yes, handily there are virtual images available also for Parallels and QEMU.
Check out http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers/Setup for information for developers. Personally, I prefer to use the jhbuild (sugar-jhbuild) to get the latest development goodies. Let me know if you need any help setting the environment up. Jason DM Smith wrote: > I found an interesting link that has the XO running in VMWare's Fusion. > Probably would work for their other offerings. This might provide an > easy way to play around with it. > > http://www.freesmug.org/newsitems/news912 > > In Him, > DM Smith > > DJ Ortley wrote: > >> I'm sure I'm not the only one who's thought of something like this, >> but should we be looking at the One Laptop Per Child project? >> >> While that project is not intended for (and many on the project may be >> quite hostile towards) religious material, I would assume it would >> still be a good thing to have resources that would be focused towards >> these laptops. >> >> Yes, the laptops are Linux under the hood, but are the Linux based >> sword front ends workable solutions on these things? >> >> Do the current Linux programs need to be tuned, or might it be better >> to write a new program from scratch? There might be some special >> issues with Sugar. >> >> This could be a place where specially hardwired packaged binaries >> might come in. >> >> Since Sugar is built with Python, maybe there's something interesting >> that can be done with Sword's Python bindings. >> >> Also, here's the wiki on the eBooks (which I gather are viewable when >> the laptop is in low power mode..) >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ebooks >> >> Maybe making some of the modules in various languages (primarily >> biblical texts) available somehow.. >> >> I don't know, what does everyone think? I'm just shotgunning stuff >> out at the moment. >> >> Anybody who decides they want to write a Sugar specific interface >> would have to remember that they're going to have to closely follow a >> very moving target for the next couple of years. >> >> -DJ >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org >> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >> > > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
