[IAEP] Running sugar at almost-native speeds in Windows

[Martin Dengler]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 06:00:02PM -0400, Luke Faraone wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was musing on ways to ease demoing for Windows users, and I thought of
> something: why not leverage the work done by coLinux<http://www.colinux.org/>?
> They already have prebuilt
> images<http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=98788&package_id=122245>running
> F10, so getting Sugar to run on them and packaging it up into a EXE
> shouldn't be too difficult (and might be something I'd have time for).
> 
> What do you guys think?

Interesting but you'd need an X server running on Windows, according
to http://colinux.wikia.com/wiki/XCoLinux (IIUC).  So you're still
going to have to get them not only an EXE with coLinux, but one with
cygwin/X or another (do free ones exist?) X server that runs on
windows.  Seems non-trivial.

Martin
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