[IAEP] State of Soas?

[Walter Bender]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Christoph Derndorfer
<e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> even though I've tried to keep a close eye on the breathtaking
> development of SoaS over the past few weeks there are still some basic
> questions I'm wondering about, all related to how well SoaS runs on the
> various netbooks.
>
> * Have the resolution issues, which used to be a major issue w/ running
> Sugar on a non-XO, been solved?

While not every activity has been modified, most now accommodate
variable screen sizes. All of the activities at
activities.sugarlabs.org work at variable sizes and resolutions as far
as I know.

> * What about font sizes?

This is also fixed in Sucrose 0.84

> * Do all the activities (incl. collaboration) work reliably on SoaS
> these days?

Collaboration on SoaS is as robust as collaboration anywhere. (There
is a Google Summer of Code project that will be addressing one general
issue of collaboration robustness--this will be relevant to SoaS and
non-SoaS deployments.)

There are some NetworkManager issues that need to be worked out in
general regarding Sugar on non-OLPC kernels, but this impacts
connectivity, not collaboration.


> * Does SoaS allow for power-management to kick in on netbooks?

Yes, but currently not the special OLPC XO features.

> * What exactly are the networking and audio issues that Walter described
> in yesterday's Sugar-Digest?

AFAIK, the audio problems are fixed in the new Beta.

We have found some issues with connectivity with a small number of
machines--this seems to be a Fedora issue, not a Sugar issue, and is
being worked on upstream.

>
> What I'm basically trying to find out is whether *today* running SoaS on
> a netbook is a *real* alternative to XOs with build 767 when it comes to
> classroom settings?

For the OLPC XO hardware, we are targeting F12 as the timeframe for
the switch. In the meantime, on that hardware, we recommend the 80X
series of builds from OLPC.  But by all means, please test SoaS on
your XO hardware (you'll need a developer key) and give us feedback.
On all other hardware, SoaS, while just in Beta, is looking really
great!!

>
> Thanks,
> Christoph
>
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