[IAEP] status on Sugar Guide for 0.84

[Sean DALY]

Greetings Caryl,

I agree with you and in fact I've been very pleased to run Sugar v0.84
at full screen in virtualization on a Mac Mini, following the
instructions at this link: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Downloads
easily reachable from the homepage of www.sugarlabs.org

(note: the download link onthe "Sugar on a Stick VirtualBox" page
appears to be broken it should be
http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/appliances/soas2-20090321.tar.gz)

We are still updating those wiki pages and the Mac page does need to
make clearer that Sugar will only run on an Intel processor Mac. It's
a pity because I'm sure lots of schools have older Macs (I have a
bunch at the house myself).

thanks

Sean



On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi...
>
> The new Sugar manual looks very professional. You folks have done a great
> job.
>
>  I was, however, disappointed to find that, although running it on a Mac is
> mentioned, the instructions for doing it are not included.  The education
> world in the US is mostly a Mac world.  A lot of people would like to run it
> on their classroom machines.
>
> If it currently only works on Intel based machines, could we at least
> include instructions for that?  Meanwhile, is anyone working on getting it
> to run on Power PC Macs?  I have both and can test it whenever it is ready
> and you send me the info on getting it.
>
> Caryl
>
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>> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:52:08 -0500
>> From: Anne Gentle <annegentle at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [IAEP] status on Sugar Guide for 0.84
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>> Hi all -
>> I am thinking the Sugar Guide is ready for one last look before I publish
>> to
>> PDF and HTML.
>>
>> It's still on the WRITE side of FLOSS Manuals, so feel free to do any
>> last-minute proofing and edits here:
>> http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Sugar/8_4/WebHome
>>
>> We had some technical hurdles to overcome since it's our first version
>> update on a manual (way to lead the way Sugar!). But I think enough bugs
>> are
>> worked out to allow publishing tomorrow (Friday 3/27).
>>
>> Final items:
>>
>> 1. Walter or someone with python knowledge, could you review the
>> "Modifying Sugar" chapter at
>> http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Sugar/8_4/ModifyingSugar? I had to
>> take all the code examples (python and svg xml) and put them into images
>> so
>> that the PDF generation will work.
>> 2. There's a problem with misnumbered chapters for which I've logged a
>> trac issue and Aco has taken: http://adam.engagetv.com/trac/ticket/81.
>> 3. Walter, David, and Adam - let's talk about getting an ISBN for this
>> book if we want to sell it on Amazon. If we do decide to sell it on
>> Amazon,
>> we'll need a new book cover to match Crown Quarto dimensions. (The
>> dimensions are 190mm x 250mm and the page count is 226.)
>>
>> Thanks, all, for your assistance and patience.
>>
>> Anne
>>
>> --
>> Anne Gentle
>> email: annegentle at justwriteclick.com
>> blog: www.justwriteclick.com
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