[IAEP] VIA C3 based laptop

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 09:40:53PM +0500, Ashar Iqbal wrote:
>On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 08:35:05PM +0500, Ashar Iqbal wrote:
>>>I have got a laptop with a VIA C3 cpu. This needs i386 based 
>>>software. Any suggestions as to how to install / run Sugar on this?

>> Packaging Sugar for Debian, which has 486 kernel and openchrome 
>> driver, but Sugar is not currently up-to-date.
>>
>
>If you are recommending Debian, then please let me have a pointer at 
>what to download. How about Ubuntu (since that is a Debian derivative) 
>- would this work ?

If you find it acceptable to play with the older stable 0.82 release of 
Sugar for now, then I would certainly recommend Debian.

If you want the latest stable 0.84 release of Sugar or newer 0.85 
unstable work, and is willing to do some compilation yourself, then I 
would recommend Debian as well.

On the other hand, if you want up-to-date Sugar in a simple way, then I 
have no recommendation for you: I suspect that most if not all of the 
fast-moving distros like SoaS and Ubuntu care less about wide support, 
so might not handle your hardware properly.

Generally, your options for running up-to-date Sugar are...:

   1) Use SoaS on similar hardware as Sugar developers
   2) Use distro with Sugar 0.84 on 1-2 year old mainstream hardware
   3) Try various Sugar 0.84 live distros and be lucky
   4) Try various Sugar 0.84 non-live distros
   5) Try various other distros mixed with unofficial Sugar packages
   6) Try various other distros and build Sugar yourself using jhbuild


If you are interested in trying out Debian, then see more info here: 
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Debian

(hint: other distros have similar pages)

(hint: Sugar might be in _better_ shape than documented: wiki page might 
not be up-to-date)


Hope that helps.


  - Jonas

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