[IAEP] State of Soas?

[Frederick Grose]

Transcribed to http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/FAQ

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
> >
> > --
> > Christoph Derndorfer
> > co-editor, olpcnews
> > url: www.olpcnews.com
> > e-mail: christoph at olpcnews.com
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>
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