[IAEP] More about SoaS on a MacBook

[Eben Eliason]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> [adding fedora-olpc to cc]
>
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 23:27, Carol Farlow Lerche <cafl at msbit.com> wrote:
>> Caryl, the G4 has a powerpc processor, which executes an entirely different
>> binary instruction set from the Intel-based Mac and Intel PC architecture
>> machines.  Since SOAS in all its incarnations contains binary executables
>> prepared for an Intel processor, this won't execute on your G4 Mac.  (I'm
>> leaving aside corner cases of having some kind of hardware emulator on the
>> G4.)
>
> Maybe someone would be interested in doing a ppc version of soas? I
> see issues with activities containing binary modules, but maybe we
> should tackle this problem sooner than later, as any of these days
> someone could be interested in running Sugar on ARM or MIPS netbooks.
>
> And there's still lots of PPC macs in the education sector in the US.

That's true. Does anyone know the typical life span of classroom
computers? Apple started producing Intel machines 4 years ago, and
hasn't produced any PPC machines in the past 3.

If we expect the market to last, we should definitely address it, but
we should also be careful not to expend too much energy on a platform
that won't exist in a couple more years, especially if it comes at the
cost of more robust support on Intel macs, or other platforms
altogether.

Eben

> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Again,
>>>
>>> I downloaded http://www.sugarlabs.org/static/soas/soas-beta-1.zip.  It
>>> took about 1 hr 45 min on a DSL connection. I haven't opened it yet...will
>>> get to that later today or this evening.  But, I have a couple of questions.
>>>
>>> Is it possible to burn this file to a disk and boot from it?  If so, would
>>> I unzip it first?
>>>
>>> If not, where should I put it? How do I access it?
>>>
>>> Is there any chance this version would run on a G4 MacPowerbook?  I have
>>> one on hand I could try it with (it does run OSX).
>>>
>>> I would still like to be able to run from the SoaS USB with the helper
>>> CD.  Someone else was having problems wiht that too.  Is anyone working on a
>>> solution?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Caryl
>>>
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