[IAEP] noob download Sugar for XO

[Walter Bender]

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Yamandu Ploskonka <yamaplos at gmail.com> wrote:
> For someone trying to get activities for the 802 specifically, in
> http://activities.sugarlabs.org
> you have to do "advanced" search, which has an option for versions of Sugar

Perhaps it would be worthwhile creating a collection on
http://activities.sugarlabs.org for 802 activities.

> Interestingly http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Downloads indicate only Sugar on
> a Stick for the XO - the link on Do you have an OLPC XO-1 is
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation/OLPC

I am not sure what you are saying. We describe four different options
for the OLPC XO-1 on
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation/OLPC. We'll
update the page to reflect the Blueberry release of Sugar on a Stick
as soon as it is ready.

> Are we abandoning Sugar for the XO, Walter?

Not by any means; but to keep Sugar current on the OLPC XO-1, someone
has to do the work of keeping the drivers up to date. I had been under
the impression that the Fedora 11 work was progressing in parallel
with the efforts for the OLPC XO-1.5, but for lack of sufficient
resources, it seems to have lagged behind. It would be great if more
hands could help with this effort. Meanwhile, we continue to work on
Sugar-on-a-Stick options, that while lacking some drivers, will still
give a great Sugar experience on the XO-1 hardware.

>
> and then you have to plod.  Wish a choice were for "basic" or something like
> that, sorting by "popularity" gives me Falabracman, which must be wonderful,
> but not something as necessary in this case as Write, Browse, etc.  "Rating"
> is a bit better,
>
> It is nice Walter trusts me I can navigate my way, but we need to figure out
> how to respond to someone who is not skilled enough to make this level of
> choices.

As per Wade's call for more reviews from the field, please encourage
the teachers on Sur to contribute their opinions. This will help
tremendously.

> BTW, Hernan Pachas was asking for something similar, apparently with similar
> luck
>
> Hernán, ¿hay una lista ya?  ¿la compartes?

As I remarked above, perhaps an 802 collection would be worthwhile
creating from the data you and Hernan collect.

regards.

-walter

> Walter Bender wrote:
>
> OLPC is as far as I know, still recommending 8.02 for the OLPC XO 1.0.
> Martin Langhoff is working on a revision of this build with a number
> of bug fixes. Plans for a Fedora-11-based upgrade, with Sugar 0.84 or
> 0.86 seem to be stalled at the moment.
>
> In the Sugar activity portal, activities.sugarlabs.org, there is an
> indication for each activity as to which system it will run on.
>
> regards.
>
> -walter
>
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka <yamaplos at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> I am trying to update several XOs
>
> what Sugar version to download?  from where?
> wiki.sugarlabs.org seems to be down, and several OLPC pages for this
> subject have the "deprecated" sign, but activities.sugarlabs.org seems
> to be OK
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Clean-install_procedure is not very helpful
> for the noob, or even for an international expert as I am, but then,
> being a wiki, it's my fault ... :-)
>
> I got  http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/os/official/802/jffs2/os802.img
> and of course http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/os/official/802/jffs2/fs.zip
>
> there is also
> http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/custom/g1g1/gg-767-4/gg-767-4.img
>
> should I use that one instead? it already is said to have Activities.
> I'd rather have something that works than something that might but not quite
>
>
> Which brings us of course to Activities.
> Which ones? version? Where?
> (links, please, more useful than just a list)
> I've read that some are not working anymore, something about Help?
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Walter Bender
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