[IAEP] SoaS at FOSDEM

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:19, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>>> Pity it's a bit too late to prepare a MIPS soas for the Gdium ;)
>>
>> Well, if we had the hardware today we could try a rush.  It didn't
>> take much with the Beagle Board.
>>
>> Do we know what Linux distro they use already?
>
> Sorry, I had misread your statement.  No, of course it would be a huge
> amount of time to get SoaS (== Fedora) to build on MIPS or any other
> unsupported platform.
>
> What I meant to say is that we could package up Sugar for their
> existing distro, which is way easier, especially if it uses a
> packaging format for which we alreadt have packages ready.

I see. They are using Mandriva, AFAIK, and that's working quite well
right now, at least on i586:

http://blog.tomeuvizoso.net/2009/01/sugar-now-on-mandrivas-cooker.html

Regards,

Tomeu