[IAEP] Activities Under Emulation

[Sean DALY]

Re Mac: It's my understanding Intel procs only, no PPC, is that right?


On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
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> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 09:17:19PM -0800, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
>>I am working on a presentation I will be doing about OLPC and Sugar at
>>a huge educator's conference in Palm Springs next week.  I realize I
>>need some nitty-gritty type info about the current state of Sugar
>>emulation on PCs and Macs.  Can anyone fill me in on the latest, most
>>up-to-date answers to these questions?  Maybe Luke? Anyone else?
>
> I don't have the answers to your question, just want to perhaps clarify
> one bit of it:
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> I suspect that when you say "emulation" you really mean "used natively
> in other system environments than the initial one of an XO laptop".
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>  1) Sugar on XO laptops on their Fedora-based system
>
>   -> Install an official OLPC "build" on an XO
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>  2) Sugar on various Linux systems as an own desktop
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>   -> Install an unofficial OLPC "build" on an XO
>   -> Install Sugar packages on a major system and invoke as desktop
>   -> Build Sugar locally (using e.g. jh-build) and invoke as desktop
>   -> Boot from a LiveCD or LiveUSB (e.g. SoaS) that starts Sugar desktop
>
>  3) Sugar on various Linux systems inside an emulated X11 screen
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>   -> Install Sugar packages on a major system and run sugar-emulator
>   -> Build Sugar locally (using e.g. jh-build) and run sugar-emulator
>   -> Boot from a LiveCD or LiveUSB that invokes sugar-emulator
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>  4) Sugar on Mac or Windows by emulating some Linux system
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>   -> Boot from a LiveCD inside hardware emulator (eg. VirtualBox)
>
> If I understand the term correctly (which I might not) then in none of
> these cases Sugar itself is emulated.
>
> Perhaps (depending on how finegrained you want to understand these
> issues) it might make sense to distinguish differently between kinds of
> environments than just the word "emulation"
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>
>  - Jonas
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