[IAEP] Creating Your First Sugar Activity

[Wade Brainerd]

Hey James,

That sounds like a good solution given your hardware specs.  It's been
years since I used a computer with less than 2GB RAM :P

But it's really easy to emulate Sugar.  You just download VirtualBox
and the SoaS appliance; it takes about 20 minutes total.  And to test
collaboration, you can just run multiple VMs and let them collaborate
with each other.

Best regards,
Wade

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 5:44 PM, James Simmons
<jim.simmons at walgreens.com> wrote:
> Wade,
>
> I have tried to run Sugar under emulation but to do that you need to have a
> newer computer than anything I own.  The last three computers I bought
> (other than my XO) were surplus IBM computers, Pentium IV with 256 meg of
> RAM.  This is perfectly adequate for Sugar development running Fedora 10 or
> Xubuntu Live, but not much good for running Sugar under emulation.  The last
> one I bought cost about 45 dollars, plus another 30 for shipping.
>
> Even if I had a really powerful PC (I could afford one; I'm just cheap) by
> the time you've installed python, pygtk, pygame, eric, and the emulation
> software needed to run Sugar, plus git, you've already done more work than
> installing a dual-boot setup with Windows and Fedora 10.
>
> Eventually the Activity developer will want to try her hand at
> collaboration, so at a minimum you need two computers on the same network to
> test that and why not make the second one an old piece of junk running
> Fedora?
>
> As I told Kathy, she can feel free to ignore any advice I give that doesn't
> seem to be applicable.
>
> James Simmons
>
>
> Wade Brainerd wrote:
>>
>> Also check out http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/Resources.
>> It has a Getting Started section at the beginning which covers many of
>> these topics.
>>
>> FWIW, I do all my activity development on Windows, and I know a lot of
>> people work on Macs too.  So I don't think you need to go all the way
>> to setting up a Linux box just for activity development.
>>
>> Best,
>> Wade
>>
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